This programme is an interesting investigation into how a large number of fake artworks have been sold in the market. While it manages to convince that the art in question is indeed fake, it doesn't wholly succeed in explaining the shady business that put them up for sale, although its fringes are exposed. One thing which is presented as particularly embarassing is that one such picture has recently featured in two major movies; but if this image caught the attention of the film-makers, shouldn't that be a better test of its value than who painted it? The art-world is a strange one, as what gets celebrated (and paid for) as great art is a social construct rather than an objective test. On one hand, therefore, this is a film about outrageous criminality; in another, it's a film about who gets to make the rules.
