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IMDb rating 7.8
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Critic rating 7.5

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Critic Ben Kenigsberg
rated 6

This is all fascinating for art-history buffs...

Read full review at The A.V. Club
Critic Glenn Kenny
rated 8

...straightforward, brisk, engaging, and sometimes even moving.

Read full review at Roger Ebert
Critic Phil De Semlyen
rated 8

A funny, often maddening portrait of art, technology and obsession.

Read full review at Empire
Critic Mark Kermode
rated 8

The results are astonishing – so much so that you begin to wonder whether this Penn and Teller project isn't in fact an elaborate hoax, a brilliantly constructed illusion.

Read full review at The Guardian

Cast & Crew

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Penn Jillette
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Martin Mull
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David Hockney
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Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor, embarks on a decade-long quest to solve one of the greatest mysteries in art history: how Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer achieved photo-realistic paintings 150 years before the invention of photography. Jenison's epic research project takes him from Holland to the North coast of Yorkshire, and even to Buckingham Palace, as he develops a technique that could have been used by Vermeer, using 17th-century technology such as lenses and mirrors. The film follows Jenison's adventure, which is as extraordinary as what he discovers.

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