It uses collage, montage and re-enactments, using personal photo albums, archival material, press clippings, letters and footage from Don Featherstone's Difficult Pleasure documentary on Whiteley.
[2] Stephen Romei of the Australian gave it 3 stars and wrote "The weakest artistic aspect of the filling-in comes with the use of actors playing Brett and Wendy in re-creations of their life together, and in animated scenes that put photographs of Whiteley into Renaissance paintings and elsewhere.
"[3] The Sydney Morning Herald's Sandra Hall gave it 3 1/2 stars saying "Whiteley dominates the action, talking about the alchemy which translates ideas into art, and the result is an absorbing portrait, marred only by Bogle's decision to use actors in a series of dramatic reconstructions.
He states "Director James Bogle uses a basic, no-frills approach, wisely surmising that Whiteley’s spellbinding visual gift will speak for itself.
What emerges from the film — which uses audio recordings of the artist himself and those close to him as a refreshingly direct form of narration — are contrasting portraits of the same individual.