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Made You Look: A True Story About Fake Art (2020)
Unintentional comedy
The real enjoyment for this documentary is seeing the lack of self awareness from the ultra wealthy collectors. Eleanore De Sole is trying to get viewers to sympathize with her finding out her $8 million Rothko with glaring red flags from the start is a fake. Meanwhile her family is worth over 4 billion dollars. The New York Times author M. H Miller that thinks he knows it all, but is shocked to learn there are expensive mercedes benz that you can buy. Some of the most self-absorbed and unlikeable people in this documentary. Jose trying to sell "Bob Dylan's Harmonica" was hilarious though. Funny guy.
The documentary tries so hard to be taken seriously. At the end of the day, the documentary is just a huge mess of she said and he said, but then she says she didn't say what she said. The documentary contains very little factual information. The narrators all claim the fraud was so elaborate - but it wasn't. Some random lady shows up with dozens of world class paintings with no paperwork and everyone goes along with them. The paintings were made in a garage in Queens. Pretentious art critics, family members of the deceased artists all claimed the works were real. A decade later, the science showed they weren't real and out comes all the finger pointing and lying.