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By now, after roughly eight weeks of being confined to your home, you’ve probably worked your way through a good deal of what Netflix has to offer.

There’s also the ‘Catch Up’ section on DStv, but the cupboard is running bare.

I have a folder where I bookmark movies, doccies, and series that catch my attention, and The Painter and the Thief has been added.

Detailing the story of Barbora Kysilkova, a Czech painter, and Karl-Bertil Nordland, one of the men behind the theft of two of her paintings, the Guardian calls it “the year’s most moving documentary”:

 The film, which earned rave reviews after its premiere at Sundance earlier this year, traces first the artist’s determination to understand Nordland, who claimed to be too intoxicated to remember what he did with her paintings (his accomplice is, for the most part, edited out of this narrative). But in their first post-court meet-up, at an Oslo restaurant, he remembers why he stole them: “Because they were beautiful.”

…A tattoo blared across Nordland’s chest: “Snitchers are a Dying Breed.” But the hardened persona, one honed through an abusive, distant childhood and, later, narcotics dealing, crumbled at the sight of Kysilkova’s empathetic rendering of his likeness

That’s enough of that, so let’s see the trailer:

As pointed out above, The Painter and the Thief has a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes, which is no mean feat.

Then again, Black Panther is the highest-rated movie of all time, so make of that what you will.

The doccie begins airing on Hulu from tomorrow, May 22.

[source:guardian]