Big Eyes review – an ogle at who owns what
Burton’s film about the painter of big-eyed children asks relevant questions about rights and marginalisation but he can’t quite champion the paintingsTim Burton matches style and subject, bringing his own brand of directorial oddity to this oddity in the history of popular art, though not precisely pop art.It is the story of Margaret Keane, whose chocolate-boxy paintings of sweet little kids with big eyes became a commercial smash in the early 60s, though mocked by snooty critics, rather li
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