Rotten
A movie that makes an afternoon with Gertrude and Alice more boring than a faculty tea.
Vincent Canby, New York Times
The Moderns
Paris, 1926... there was nothing more modern.
1988 · 2h 6m · R
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Alan Rudolph
Overview
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.
Director and cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
75%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It takes place at that enchanted moment in Paris when the Lost Generation created itself and then proceeded to create, promote, fabricate and publicize modern literature, art, music and attitudes.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Everything is ersatz, even the surrealism in Alan Rudolph's 10th movie.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
Fresh
Rudolph's weaknesses pale before the film's overriding textures: Toyomichi Kurita's cinematography exquisitely crosses color with sepia and blacks and whites.
Desson Thomson, Washington Post
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