Review – Tim’s Vermeer

Obsessive millionaire Tim Jenison develops the theory that Johannes Vermeer used optics to trace reality onto canvas. To put this to the quasi-test, he creates a painstaking reproduction of the scene from “The Music Lesson” and then spends months trying – with exceptionally limited success – to duplicate the masterpiece. I’m not surprised that Penn and Teller produced this bit of dull strangeness. The theory clearly is that the secret to understanding anything is merely to unravel the trick of how it’s done. Inadvertently the production demonstrates just how faulty this approach can be. See if desperate