Exit through the gift shop

Yesterday afternoon I decied to go check out the new Bansky flim exit through the gift shop.  It's been billed as a street art doc.  It is, but it's not really about Bansky as I thought it was.  It's about this French expat living in LA who loves to caputre every waking moment on flim.  He goes to FRance and visits his cousin who is the street artist Space Invader.  He loves the thrill of fliming these illegal activites.  He has a chance encounter with Shepard Faery when his cousin can't meet up with him.  He then goes on to flim Farey and other street artists along the way.  But he is preoccupied with fliming Bansky.  Magical one day Bansky's in LA and needs some help and the cooky frenchman is their to his aid.  Bansky befriends our flimmaker and later tells him to make good on the doc he's been promising to make.  He does and it sucks.  Instead Bansky encourages him to make art.  Well what does out subject make...street art. He basiclly copies all the artists he's flimed and makes a major imapct on the art world as Mr. Brainwash or MBW.  It's an interesting look at street art and it's origins and acceptance in the art world. It has it's moments of sheer nuttines due to the Frenchma's take on life and art.  It's a must see.