Director Tim Burton’s Big Eyes is an excellent
recreation of the true-life scam perpetrated by Walter Keane, who passed off
his wife’s paintings as his own.
Amy Adams is wonderful as Margaret Keane, the
painter of big-eyed waifs in the 1950s, and Christoph Waltz is exceptional as
her domineering husband, who made them millions by convincing her the public
would not buy paintings done by a woman.
With a crisp script by Scott Alexander and
Larry Karaszewski, plus the colorful cinematography of Bruno Delbonnel and
spot-on period designs of Rick Heinrichs, Burton has turned in one of his best
films to date.
I give Big Eyes a 5 out of 5.
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