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Review: This is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist, directed by Colin Barnicle.
After dreaming for many years of visiting Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, I was surprised by its dour presence when I finally arrived on its doorstep. The original building presented a rather austere face to the world, its stolid facade dwarfing an unobtrusive entrance. However, once inside, my every longed-for fantasy was realised.
The internal courtyard glowed with light sucked down from the glass ceiling. Palms and exotic ferns flourished in this hothouse environment. Visitors stood in awe it looked like a Venetian palace, rooted like a tropical orchid in a frost-bitten landscape. In every room, masterpieces softly glowed within their gilt frames; antique furniture filled each nook, vases, and objects d’art on every surface. It was magical.
Federal investigators came to believe during the past decade that the key to the world’s biggest art heist the still-unsolved 1990 theft of $500 million in paintings and other works from Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum might be found just outside Hartford. The feds thought the paintings might have been in or under the home of an old, convicted gangster, Robert “The Cook” Gentile, in Manchester where they dug up his yard and tore out walls looking for two Rembrandts and other treasures created by the likes of Vermeer, Degas and Manet.Gentile denies any involvement and the paintings have never been found, despite the museum’s $10 million reward offer that still stands. But the enduring mystery has found its way onto TV screens in a popular new, four-part Netflix documentary series called “This Is a Robbery: The World’s Biggest Art Heist.” Most of the action plays out in Boston, naturally, but the final Netflix installment dwells heavily on Connecticut and Gen
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