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Whiteley: a Seductive Cinematic Portrait of a Serious Artist,
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'The caption on the poster for this film reads:
If there’s no meaning to life, then you might as well make it extraordinary. Whiteley in the iconic artist’s own words.
Brett Whiteley (1939-1992) was certainly the most public and media-celebrated Australian artist of the 20th century. Following in the footsteps of an authoritative biography on the artist by Ashleigh Wilson in 2016 comes this new feature-length film. While it is advertised as being in the artist’s own words, the director James Bogle skilfully blends rare documentary footage with actors playing the role of Whiteley as a child (Jack Barns), as a youth (Campbell Greenock) and as an adult (Andy Blaikie).' (Introduction)
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