Benjamin Ree’s new documentary follows a stranger-than-fiction friendship
over the years—a 2000 Rembrandt and Renoir theft involving a speedboat getaway in Stockholm; a Cézanne stolen during a New Year’s firework explosion over Oxford; and a $500-million art robbery in Boston involving fake police officers that remains unsolved three decades later. But it was the 2015 theft of an unknown artist’s paintings in Oslo that may have yielded the most fascinating art-theft ending yet.came face-to-face with thiefin a courtroom.
Ree said that he had been researching art heists when he came across Kysilkova and Nordland’s story in Norwegian newspapers, and initially thought his footage would yield a 10-minute documentary. But Ree tracked artist and thief over the course of about 100 meetings—with the emotional climax being a meeting in which Nordland shows Kysilkova the portrait she created of him.
Asked to describe the friendship, Nordland said of Kysilkova, “She is just like my soul mate in some kind of dark way. We shared some of the same demons, I think.” For Nordland, who is now a year sober and studying to become a nurse, seeing the finished documentary was a difficult reminder of his past. He is seen, at one point, evading his girlfriend to score heroin. “I’ve become sober and clean and living a totally different life and then now I have to see it on the screen—reminding me about all the shame, heroin abuse, and seeing myself like the skinny junkie with a lot of problems—that’s painful….
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