Variety
Despite a soulful leading performance from Max Minghella, pic feels insubstantial, echoing without equaling both the coolly ironic edge and heart of 'Ghost World'...
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Art School Confidential
Though some reviews have been a bit cool, Terry Zwigoff aint' made a bad picture in my books: tear-inducing hilarity in 'Bad Santa', & neurotic intrigue with 'Ghost World' & 'Crumb'.
It follows Jerome (Minghella), a fresh-faced student who aspires to become the "greatest artist of the 21st century". But alas Jerome's art is too cumbersome and simple for his anything-goes art school peers and teacher (Malkovich) - a struggling artist himself. He finds two muses - one a nude model (Myles) whom he lusts for; the other a drunk, washed-up artist given to bouts of violent temper (Broadbent). All of which transpires against a gloomy backdrop - the school's environs are being stalked by a serial killer who has just strangled victim five.
It follows Jerome (Minghella), a fresh-faced student who aspires to become the "greatest artist of the 21st century". But alas Jerome's art is too cumbersome and simple for his anything-goes art school peers and teacher (Malkovich) - a struggling artist himself. He finds two muses - one a nude model (Myles) whom he lusts for; the other a drunk, washed-up artist given to bouts of violent temper (Broadbent). All of which transpires against a gloomy backdrop - the school's environs are being stalked by a serial killer who has just strangled victim five.
2006Rating: TBC102 minsUSA
ComedyDrama
- Director:
- Terry Zwigoff (Bad Santa, Ghost World, Crumb)
- Writer:
- Daniel Clowes
- Cast:
- Max MinghellaSophia MylesJohn MalkovichJim BroadbentAnjelica HustonSteve BuscemiEthan SupleeJoel Moore
Art School Confidential / Reviews
Roger Ebert
Jerome's teacher (Malkovich), paces the classroom talking on his cell phone, trying to get a gallery to give him a show. He draws triangles. "I was one of the first," he says, to paint triangle...
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Will entertain a sophomoric audience and etch some winning college-kid figures, but art house audiences will be disappointed by its paint-by-numbers storytelling...
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