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Sketches, but no true portrait

Archiseek / Canada / News / 2006 / June 16

They are long-time friends, the famous architect and the celebrated director who's doing his profile, but their intimacy proves a very mixed blessing in Sketches of Frank Gehry. What benefits the picture early on, giving it a casual air, becomes cloying in the later going, making it feel like a smug exercise in mutual admiration.

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