Chasing Banksy is absolute dynamite
Chasing Banksy (USA)
This is the kind of movie that gives the WFF its flavour, a wild, erratic, properly indecent effort from director Frank Henenlotter about a trio of Williamsburg millennials bent on stealing a Banksy original from a Katrina-damaged shithole in New Orleans.
Written with actor Anthony Sneed, Banksy benefits from Henenlotter’s signature balance of wit and excess—hatched when he was an exploitation-film lover in the ’70s, honed in his own Basket Case, Brain Damage, and Frankenhooker—but the filmmaker outdoes himself with some key moments of political insight, revealing a genuinely dissident imagination.
Absolute dynamite from a true original, Chasing Banksy suggests that Henenlotter, now in his mid-60s, is way hipper than any of us.
December 3 and 4 at the Whistler Film Festival.
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