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Exit Through the Gift Shop

  • 20102010
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  • 1h 27m
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8.0/10
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Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
The story of how an eccentric French shop keeper and amateur film maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on its owner.
Play trailer1:17
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Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.Following the style of some of the world's most prolific street artists, an amateur filmmaker makes a foray into the art world.
IMDb RATING
8.0/10
66K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
11,201
207
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Director
      • Banksy
    • Stars
      • Banksy
      • Mr. Brainwash
      • Space Invader
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Banksy
    • Stars
      • Banksy
      • Mr. Brainwash
      • Space Invader
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 127User reviews
    • 230Critic reviews
    • 85Metascore
    • Nominated for 1 Oscar
      • 24 wins & 31 nominations total

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    Exit Through the Gift Shop
    Trailer 1:17
    Exit Through the Gift Shop

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    Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
    Banksy in Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
    Adrien Brody at an event for Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
    Adrien Brody at an event for Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
    Adrien Brody at an event for Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
    Brent Bolthouse at an event for Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
    Danny Masterson at an event for Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
    Danny Masterson at an event for Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
    Danny Masterson at an event for Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010)
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    Banksy
    Banksy
    • Self
    Mr. Brainwash
    Mr. Brainwash
    • Self
    • (as Thierry Guetta aka Mister Brainwash)
    Space Invader
    • Self
    Debora Guetta
    • Self
    Monsieur André
    • Self
    Zeus
    • Self
    Shepard Fairey
    Shepard Fairey
    • Self
    Ron English
    Ron English
    • Self
    Caledonia Curry
    Caledonia Curry
    • Self
    • (as Swoon)
    Borf
    • Self
    Buffmonster
    • Self
    Steve Lazarides
    • Self
    Wendy Asher
    • Self
    Roger Gastman
    • Self
    Laurent Nahoum-Vatinet
    • Self
    Amanda Fairey
    • Self
    Romain Lefebure
    • Self
    Clemence Janin
    • Self
    • Director
      • Banksy
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    • Trivia
      The film had its unofficial UK premiere in an abandoned rail tunnel underneath London's Waterloo station, an area devoted to graffiti and street art. Tickets for this sold out in a minute. A red carpet was spraypainted on the ground especially for the occasion, while spectators were all presented with tins of spray paint as they left the screening.
    • Quotes

      Banksy: I used to encourage everyone I knew to make art; I don't do that so much anymore.

    • Crazy credits
      At the end says "No elephants were harmed during the making of this movie" referring to Banksy's US expo.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: A Nightmare on Elm Street/The City of Your Final Destination/Please Give/Harry Brown/Sita Sings the Blues (2010)
    • Soundtracks
      Tonight the Streets Are Ours
      Written by Richard Hawley

      Performed by Richard Hawley

      Published by Universal Music Publ. MGB Ltd.

      Licensed courtesy of Mute Records Ltd

      Taken from the album "Lady's Bridge"

    User reviews127

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    Top review
    8/10
    Fascinating
    Not that I felt the same thrill Thierry must have gotten while roaming the streets with street artists, I however admit to downloading the movie via torrent (yes its illegal), and so watched it in my own living room for anyone interested in the circumstances of the review.

    Viewers should be reminded that Exit Through the Gift Shop is a documentary rather than a movie, but at the same time plays out more like an adventure movie than an educational one about street artists. Albeit being more down to earth, a fitting comparison could be Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.

    Thierry Guetta is our main character and camera guy at the same time. While lurking behind the camera he tells us his intriguing story when his life took a sudden and distinct turn. He had became known as "the guy with the camera" - developing some kind of compulsive disorder after his mother passed. His argument that everything should be recorded or else abruptly might get lost at any point in life seems reasonable but his thousands of tapes, that nobody would ever watch, piled up in his basement confirms the maladaptive nature of his behavior.

    His compulsive filming became a useful tool first when he met a street artist that he began to follow - filming every event of the artists creative process. He sank deeper and deeper into the world of street artists and that became sort of an addiction to Thierry. He seemed to almost forget about his wife and kids. Exit Through the Gift Shop tells us as much about street artisting as it does about Thierry himself. Despite being, as he himself points out, "a ghost behind the camera", his character truly steals the show. This is by no means a problem but rather enrich the story with a greater purpose. Thierrys meeting with Banksy and the following episodes poses a lot of interesting questions about what art really is, what it means to humans, what talent is made of and even about complex group behavior.

    Despite being directed by a street artist and evidently put together from thousands of different tapes, Exit Through the Gift Shop is amazingly well directed. It doesn't feel hyped, it doesn't seem to lie or exaggerate the happenings and the fact that an interesting, motivated and special character gets to portrait everything from an outside view is fascinating to watch. My text is hardly enough to summarize it so the only tip i can give you is WATCH IT!
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    • Feb 14, 2011

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    • Release date
      • May 14, 2010 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook (Germany)
      • Official Facebook (France)
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
    • Also known as
      • 怪盜塗鴉異世界
    • Filming locations
      • Disneyland Park, Disneyland Resort - 1600 S. Disneyland Drive, Anaheim, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Paranoid Pictures
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $3,291,250
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $170,756
      • Apr 18, 2010
    • Gross worldwide
      • $5,386,242
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 27 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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