Title: great artist, lousy documentary
Product review: I don't know about the DVD edition... but this is one of the least interesting documentaries I've ever seen. Maya Lin herself is clearly a gifted artist, but this is a standard paint-by-numbers documentary. You don't learn anything you couldn't have learned in a magazine article, it doesn't exploit the film medium at all, there's nothing in the form of this documentary that couldn't be used in a documentary about any successful person.The fact that it won an oscar just shows how screwed up the Oscar selection process was at that time for documentaries.
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