The Moderns

April. 15,1988      R
Rating:
6.6
Trailer Synopsis Cast

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.

Keith Carradine as  Nick Hart
Linda Fiorentino as  Rachel Stone
Wallace Shawn as  Oiseau
Geneviève Bujold as  Libby Valentin
Geraldine Chaplin as  Nathalie de Ville
Kevin J. O'Connor as  Hemingway
John Lone as  Bertram Stone
Charlélie Couture as  L'Evidence
Elsa Raven as  Gertrude Stein
Gailard Sartain as  New York Critic

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Reviews

Dynamixor
1988/04/15

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

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Glucedee
1988/04/16

It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

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Senteur
1988/04/17

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

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InformationRap
1988/04/18

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

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