Did two schoolteachers pull off the heist of a major de Kooning? A documentary explores their possible double lives:
, who began looking into the couple and the circumstances surrounding the crime, committed in broad daylight.
The painting eventually makes its way to the Getty Center in Los Angeles, where Otto films its painstaking restoration, done under a microscope, one fleck of damaged paint at a time. The thieves cut the canvas out of its frame and rehung it, putting staples into the edge of the picture to put it on a new stretcher. They also did their best to retouch damaged areas, crudely painting over losses.
Following conservation, the painting will be unveiled at the Getty in the exhibition “Conserving de Kooning: Theft and Recovery” . But for the documentary, the bulk of story is about the Alters, and how they could have pulled off such a caper without their friends or family ever suspecting. To paint the full picture of the couple, Otto interviews people who knew the Alters, including their nephew and estate executor, Ron Roseman, who provided unfettered access to their personal archives. That included Rita’s diaries, eight hours of home movies, and 12,000 slides of photographs the widely-traveled couple shot on their many vacations.But what truly sets the documentary apart are comical reenactments starring Glenn Howerton and Sarah Minnich as the Alters.
Another is about a couple who “had a double life,” and “saw themselves as masters of victimless crimes.” A third, about a homeowner murders a Mexican day laborer for seducing his wife and buries him in his septic tank, hints at an even darker secret.
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