Rating: - Miss the subtitles
I love this movie and my only issue is that the VCR version, subtitled when the characters spoke French - some very amusing asides are lost in the DVD version because the French is not subtitled. Otherwise, I can't recommend it enough.
Rating: - Call Me Old Fashioned
Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) is a pretentious American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He wastes most of his time boozing and posing in local cafe's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin (Geneviève Bujold) to sell his lame paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville (Geraldine Chaplin) to forge three paintings, substituting them for the real ones owned by her husband who she is in the process of divorcing. This leads to friction with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone (John Lone), who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel (Linda Fiorentino).
I have wanted to see this film for a long time, but what a disappointment. Main problem, is somehow Keith Carradine seems like he thinks he is so edgy and darkly creative, kind of like the character he plays. Smug about his talent, but showing little evidence that it exists. ... Read More
Rating: - no way
5 minutes in I could tell this was going to be garbage. Really horrible. Really. Its just some 1920's wet dream played out between two boring lead roles. I love the guy who is supposed to be hemingway. Are you serious?
Rating: - A Brittle Film About Paris In The 1920's
Director Alan Rudolph's "The Moderns" is all about Paris in the 1920's and captures the cafe society, the American expatriates, the artists and the pretentiousness and shallowness of the times. Keith Carradine is an American artist who cannot make a living and is obsessed with Rachel (Linda Fiorentino) who is married to a boorish businessman Bert Stone (John Lone) who has made his fortune in condoms. The plot has enough surprises to keep you interested most of the time, although the film, for all its beautiful cinematography and attention to detail, ultimately is a bit slow.
Fictional characters intermingle with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Alice to give the film a feeling of authenticity. Genevieve Bujold plays a gallery owner and Geraldine Chaplin is a wealthy heiress who convinces Nick to copy masterpieces. The movie belongs to Keith Carradine and Linda Fiorentino, however, who have one of ... Read More
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