Beauty Is Embarrassing

2012 Film, Tv & Radio [Nf]

Art can be many things, but it is seldom hilarious, a shortcoming Wayne White hopes to correct in the refreshingly amusing art-doc portrait "Beauty Is Embarrassing." Best known as one of the designers on trippy '80s TV hit "Pee Wee's Playhouse," but recently reinvented as the wit behind a series of popular word paintings (clever quips superimposed on thrift-store tableaux), Wayne rails against the pretentious, pointy-headed high-art establishment, serving as a compelling folk hero for those who never knew art could be fun.

Director: Neil Berkeley

Starring: Wayne White, Cliff Benjamin, Tony Crow,Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris

 33 Reviews

Reviews

  • The creativity grows like kudzu in Beauty Is Embarrassing, Neil Berkeley's enlightening and often hilarious portrait of the Los Angeles artist Wayne White. And it yields a thousand blossoms.

    - The New York Times

    29 November 2012

  • The film is studded with stirring moments of surprise.

    Kimberley Jones - Austin Chronicle

    29 November 2012

  • Those with a high tolerance for the ultimate four-letter word, and a love for eccentrics, will be entertained by both White and his art.

    - New York Post

    29 November 2012

  • Though the movie isn't wildly original, its time-tested, artistic mantra of "just go out there and do it" is hard to resist.

    - The San Francisco Chronicle

    29 November 2012

  • Beauty Is Embarrassing stays true to White's own exacting standards: It's thoughtful, skillfully executed and pure pop pleasure, from start to finish.

    Ann Hornaday - The Washington Post

    29 November 2012

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