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| Apr 30, 1988Washington Post
That's "The Moderns" at its best -- an ingenuous mix of sight, sound and snappy repartee -- just as you'd imagine it in a Left Bank cafe'.
In "The Moderns," celebrity art forger David Stein plays an art critic who stupidly condemns a real Ce'zanne to the fire and thereby authenticates a copy by the movie's hero.
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| Apr 29, 1988Washington Post
Now in "The Moderns," Rudolphworld takes over 1920s Paris with its own sensory elegance, pseudo-legend and wry observations on art, fakery, business and plagiarism.
As created by director Alan Rudolph, it is a place of eccentricity over explanation, weird and wondrous over linear and logical.
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MTV.com
In a café one day, Hart spies Rachel Stone (Linda Fiorentino) on the arm of her husband, Bertram (John Lone), a condom magnate and art patron who's trying to buy his way into society.
Older and less successful than many of his fellow painters, Hart relies on gallery owner Libby Valentin (Genevieve Bujold) to sell what she can of his work while he supports himself drawing cartoons for Oiseau's weekly column.
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The New York Times
In a café one day, Hart spies Rachel Stone (Linda Fiorentino) on the arm of her husband, Bertram (John Lone), a condom magnate and art patron who's trying to buy his way into society.
Older and less successful than many of his fellow painters, Hart relies on gallery owner Libby Valentin (Genevieve Bujold) to sell what she can of his work while he supports himself drawing cartoons for Oiseau's weekly column.
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