Filmmaker Alison Chernick ('Itzhak') follows the two art critics, married since 1992, from galleries to diners to interactions with famous friends including Cindy Sherman and Lena Dunham.
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Work long enough as a critic and you’re bound to hear the cliché, questionably attributed to Jean Sibelius, that “No statue has ever been built in honor of a critic.”
First of all, it’s a lie. There’s a very nice statue honoring Roger Ebert in Champaign, Illinois, not that Jean Sibelius would know that. There are a few others. It just isn’t common.
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