The Price of Everything

Directed by NATHANIEL KAHN

Released 10 JULY

This documentary by Nathaniel Kahn focuses on the vagaries and sometime cruelties of the art market right now. It deserves its title on the technicality that anything these days can be contemporary art. Cool and nominally neutral, there is nonetheless a genius use of one scene from Martin Scorsese’s grim and glossily-reproachful that makes the director’s is the one selected – an astounding satire of greed under capitalist rule, it wore its opprobrium as lightly, and therefore as stylishly, as a Brooks Brothers suit, with the result being an unclear moral compass. To those with what might be called the “right” view, meaning cinephiles with left-wing morals, it was as seen by Breugel; to the uninitiated, or suggestible, it looked like an expensive flashback episode of with better acting.