Exit Through the Gift Shop marks the feature-film debut of the subversive street artist Banksy, and it’s a movie fully worthy of the artist’s scandalous reputation.
Exit tells the fascinating, often hilarious, and finally somewhat disheartening tale of Thierry Guetta, a French-born L.A. thrift store owner and compulsively self-chronicling videographer who sort of accidentally begins documenting the phenomenon of contemporary street art. Over the course of the movie, we learn how Guetta’s footage ended up in Banksy’s capable hands, and how Guetta went from being an obsessed (if haphazard) chronicler of the scene to being a successful “street a...
Released:
2010
Rated:
R
Length:
86 mins