A camera follows an elderly artist around as he clears out his New York apartment.
Leiter seems a very minor photographer, as he himself acknowledges, and so this is perhaps an appropriately minor documentary, but it's still very shapeless and poorly constructed. It's nice to spend some time with him and hear what he has to say but we never really get to understand why he is being filmed in the first place. Narration might have helped, as the fundamental problem is that too much knowledge is assumed of this person almost no-one knows anything about, and so in that sense the film has to be judged something of a failure. Some nice photos here and there along the way of course, but you can find those and dwell upon them at greater length and in more appropriate detail elsewhere.
6¾
Leiter seems a very minor photographer, as he himself acknowledges, and so this is perhaps an appropriately minor documentary, but it's still very shapeless and poorly constructed. It's nice to spend some time with him and hear what he has to say but we never really get to understand why he is being filmed in the first place. Narration might have helped, as the fundamental problem is that too much knowledge is assumed of this person almost no-one knows anything about, and so in that sense the film has to be judged something of a failure. Some nice photos here and there along the way of course, but you can find those and dwell upon them at greater length and in more appropriate detail elsewhere.
6¾