My Kid Could Paint That (2007)

One of those incredible documentaries that clearly became, during filming, something other than the filmmaker originally intended. Amir Bar-Lev apparently expected to shoot a movie about Marla Olmstead, four-year-old painting prodigy. Instead, he wound up with a mystery (whose paintings are these really?) and an interesting dissection of what, exactly, makes art art.

Fascinating subject -- but I thought that Bar-Lev was in a unique position to get us an answer and he chose not to do so. The lack of resolution when one seemed so clearly available was tremendously unsatisfying.

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