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The Moderns (1988)

Drama | 126 minutes
2,66 19 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 126 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Alan Rudolph

Stars: Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino and John Lone

IMDb score: 6,6 (2.225)

Releasedate: 15 April 1988

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The Moderns plot

"Paris, 1926... there was nothing more modern."

Like many of his intellectual compatriots, the young American painter Nick Hart is fascinated by life in Paris. When he is persuaded by a wealthy art collector to start making replicas of contemporary masterpieces, this has unexpected consequences.

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The artistic milieu of 1920s Paris is given a rather corrupting and deceitful air, and that is the only thing about the film that will stick in the memory, for the story means nothing, the dialogue is equally bland, and even the actors, perhaps with the exception of Geraldine, never manage to convince. Moreover, the characterization is completely incomprehensible.

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A film in which someone like Hemingway is played as an outsider by an extra. As if it wasn't enough to have Linda Fiorentino in the cast, and in a film set in the twenties at that, that she walks around in dresses from that era the whole time. The ultimate femme fatale. It is that smile. Even in a failed film like this one, forgotten by time.

What went wrong? First of all, the casting of Carradine—what a completely bland sack of hay he is. And then Wallace Shawn, too; often funny but absolutely out of place here. Kevin J. O'Connor as Hemingway, please. You could forgive the casting if they had said something like, 'but we have Linda Fiorentino.' But no one knew that at the time. Yes, seriously, someone thought back then, 'we have Keith Carradine, we can sit back.' 'We have Genevieve Bujold, our work is done.'

As a portrayal of the era, it is also a complete flop; everything that moved that entire generation is missing. They should have made it a movable feast; what an unforgettable film it could have been. Yes, even with this cast.

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