(Untitled) 2010 / Director: Tamra Davis
Jean-Michael Basquiat: The Radiant Child
An international art star by the age of 23 and dead from a heroin overdose at 27, Jean-Michel Basquiat was drawn, in the words of one curator, to "the romance of the person whose life is so intense, it's more than he can bear." In her elegiac tribute, Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, Tamra Davis, who became friends with the painter in 1983, mercifully avoids much of the gassy nostalgia that typifies documentaries made about artists in New York in the late '70s and '80s; only one interviewee gushes that "everybody did everything then".
– Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice
USA (2010)
Duration: 88 min
Dialogue: English
Age limit: K11
Duration: 88 min
Dialogue: English
Age limit: K11
