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Portrait Of The Artist
Documentary spotlights director's
struggle for the truth.
I felt would debunk the 60 Minutes
allegations:' he said.
As Bar-Lev's doubts grew, his film
mir Bar Lev began his
gradually became a study of reportage
documentary My Kid Could and ethics in journalism, including
Paint That after he tired of
himself under the spotlight.
creating television programs about
Bar-Lev said, "I had to choose
between my affection for the
pop culture for networks such as
VH-1.
Olmsteads and telling
Photo by Mark and Laura Olm stead. Courtesy
of Sony Pictures Classics. All Rights Reserved.
He had previously
what I perceived as the
truth. I don't feel flip
won six international
awards for his debut
about what happened
between
them and me. It's
feature-length film,
a
portrait
of
quite
possibly
the most
Fighter,
painful interpersonal
two Holocaust survi-
conflict I've ever had in
vors, which Newsweek
my life."
and other major pub-
Reviewers have lauded
lications named one
rtati the movie as fair and
of 2001's top docu-
mentaries. He vowed Marla Olmstead won fame intriguing.
The New York Times
to read the entire New as "a pint-sized Pollock. "
called it "one of the most
York Times daily until
he discovered a compelling subject for honest, enjoyable tutorials on media
ethics out there."
another documentary feature.
Bar-Lev's first documentary, Fighter,
He found it in a 2004 article on
also involved difficult choices for the
Marla Olmstead, a 4-year-old from
filmmaker. It spotlights the emotional
Binghamton, N.Y., whose abstract
paintings were selling for thousands
fireworks that ensued when two com-
bative friends, the survivors Jan Wiener
of dollars. The child had first picked
and Arnost Lustig, retraced Wiener's
up a brush when she was in diapers;
journey through war-torn Europe.
her father, an amateur painter, had let
The California-born Bar-Lev, a 1994
her daub canvases while sitting atop
graduate of Brown University, said
the dining room table. Newspapers
he was drawn to the titular fighter,
around the world had picked up the
story, labeling the toddler a "pint-sized Wiener, in part, because the survivor
reminded him of his own grandfather,
Pollock!'
a Haganah veteran. He said he was
Within hours of reading the Times'
profile, Bar-Lev obtained the Olmsteads' dismayed when Wiener and Lustig
became so enraged with each other on
telephone number; and they agreed to
the trip that their friendship seemed
appear on camera. He said he initially
at stake; production halted for three
intended his movie to explore society's
obsession with child prodigies, how the days as Bar-Lev and his partners
waited to see if the men could mend
media creates celebrities and "how we
choose to decide what is art and what
fences.
Fighter and Kid have something in
is great art!' (New York Times critic
Michael Kimmelman comments on this common, according to the director.
"Both films are about the way in which
in the film.)
stories can take on a life of their own,"
Bar-Lev said he did not doubt that
he said. 7
Marla had created the vivid paintings
— even after 60 Minutes II aired a
piece suggesting that her father may
My Kid Could Paint That screens
have helped create the work. "I felt I
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p.m. Friday and Saturday and
was onto what I used to call a 'David
4
and 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 2-4,
and Goliath story," the 35-year-old
at
the Detroit Film Theatre in
filmmaker said.
the
Detroit Institute of Arts. $5-
The Olmsteads appeared sincere.
$7.50.
(313) 833-4005. For infor-
"[But] I started having my own ques-
mation
about Fighter, visit
tions, as I repeatedly failed to get
.
www.fighterfilm.com
footage of Marla painting in a way that
Naomi Pfefferman
Jewish Journal of Greater L.A.
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