Paul Lenoir And The Opera Thief Mac OS
Paul Lenoir And The Opera Thief Mac OS
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A Czech artist develops an unlikely bond with the man who stole her work in this compassionate documentary.
Barbora Kysilkova is a Czech artist who creates large, hauntingly realistic oil paintings. She pours her whole self into her work which is powered by an obsessive attention to detail and includes depictions of her own abuse at the hand of past lovers.
Having recently relocated to Norway with her loving boyfriend Oystein Stenem, who identifies in her an “attraction to something destructive” she finds herself adrift in Oslo, deep in debt and desperate for approval. Two of her key paintings, Chloe & Emma and Swan Song, are stolen in broad daylight by a man who spent hours meticulously removing each nail from the frame in order to not damage the canvas. She is affected and intrigued by this strange theft.
The thief is a heavily tattooed and earnest man named Karl-Bertil Norland. He is quickly caught and, after the trial, they agree to meet and he expresses deep remorse for the act while remaining unable to recall details of the caper as he was so out of his mind on drugs. He can give her no discernible motive beyond, “because they were beautiful”. From that moment a bond is formed between the two, something akin to both kindred spirits and artists and muse.
Director Benjamin Ree examines this theme with gentle curiosity, never pushing the subjects to probe this dynamic too forcefully, but rather allowing it to slowly unveil itself. The film captures a moment where she presents him with a portrait of himself, and his silent reaction runs the gamut of shock, joy and uncontrollable sobbing. Without words we understand so much of his pain, his self-loathing and the significance of seeing himself lovingly immortalised as an object of beauty.
The film never specifies his trauma, rather it focuses on his potential. He was an academically gifted student who went on to be a BMX champion and worked with children with special needs. In his self-neglect he has become the worst version of himself. “My defects grow in the dark and die in the light of exposure,” he says. His drug addiction and repeated self-identification as just a “junkie” is not only over-simplistic but woefully inaccurate.
The film doesn’t directly posit that this has any significance beyond the subjects involved, but it is a story about so much more. What is the point of justice after all? What if we meet those who wrong us with radical empathy? What is the purpose and the healing potential of art? Where does addiction and obsession intersect? And as Oystein puts it, “What is the practical emotional risk of caring for someone who cannot take care of themselves?”
There are no easy answers. The path to redemption is difficult and messy. The power dynamic between artist and muse is complex and unhealthy, even between these two people who harbour the best of intentions. It is made all the more bleak by the pale blues and dark greys of the Norwegian landscape; they seem to exist in a quasi-Narnia where it is always winter but never Christmas. Despite all that, this film leaves you hopeful, inspired even, Could such profound kindness and deep emotional connection exist out there for all of us?
Published 30 Oct 2020
Anticipation.
Buzz out of Sundance has been remarkable but how will this premise fill 102 minutes?
In Retrospect.
A beautiful story about extraordinary compassion.
×Photo by Caitlin Abrams
We've been in a bit of a post-Super Bowl slump here in Twin Cities chef news, but here's something big and thrilling: Guess who is the majority partner and chef-owner in forthcoming Stillwater oyster-and-whiskey destination Pearl & the Thief?
It's rising star Justin Sutherland! Sutherland, of course, is the phenom behind St. Paul barbecue standout Handsome Hog. Watching his growth as a chef has been one of the keener joys in Minnesota food life the last few years—as he scrambled up the ladder from line-cook (Meritage) to sous (Brasserie Zentral) to head chef of his first restaurant Handsome Hog. (He'll be executive chef now of both.)
Pearl & the Thief, Sutherland tells me, is going to be his most personal and most original restaurant in this market to date. 'The concept is based on dichotomies,' says Sutherland, of the spot he's opening with his longtime business partner at Handsome Hog, Joseph Pirri, as well as minority partners from Stillwater's LOLO, Joe Ehlenz and Brad Nordeen. 'Think Savannah, Georgia—that big stark, glossy white plantation look—but ultra-modern, with a seafood focus, not a pork focus, which is obviously what people know me for. I want to do shrimp and rice, étouffé, sturgeon—that classic southern food that stretches in that band from New Orleans to the low country in the Carolinas. My grandma was a big old black lady from Mississippi that did big Sunday dinners, and everyone called her Big Mama. I feel such a deep connection to that food—but of course I want to do it the way I do things.' That is, served with a list of 100 whiskies, cooked in a kitchen tricked out with a state-of-the-art smoker and immersion circulators, using the good Gulf shrimp and top-shelf oysters that are best gotten by a well-networked St. Paul chef who used to work at Meritage—one of the highest profile oyster bars around. (Meat lovers: Sutherland tells me there will be a big old beef ribeye, too.)
Will this be the Husk of the north, so to speak? A good way to find out will be to book the private upstairs lounge, where Sutherland tells me he'll exclusively be serving family-style tasting menus.
This is such good news. It's good news for Stillwater, which hasn't had much lately in terms of a serious food destination. It's good news for the Chipotle line cooks of America, which Sutherland was himself, in Mankato, only 15 years ago. It's good news for Minnesota—I love it when we keep and celebrate our home-grown talents. I guess I bring that up particularly because Sutherland is so good he gives you a nervous feeling, like coastal deep-pockets are going to come spirit him away.
'It's been fun to do this all at home,' Sutherland told me. 'We have an amazing culinary scene here, and I get to keep seeing, eating with, studying with my mentors, and it really inspires you to want to do your best. I'm super content here.'
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Good! I'm putting this on my list of most-anticipated openings of the year—and please note that the gods of cliché have always told us not to cast pearls before swine, but Sutherland is doing it in just the right order, first the swine, in Handsome Hog, and now the Pearl & the Thief, opening May 2018.
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