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Boogie Woogie (2009)

Comedy | 94 minutes
2,67 50 votes

Genre: Comedy / Drama

Duration: 94 minuten

Country: United Kingdom

Directed by: Duncan Ward

Stars: Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming and Heather Graham

IMDb score: 5,1 (4.343)

Releasedate: 17 June 2009

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Boogie Woogie plot

"Seduction. Betrayal. Death. There's an Art to Everything."

The experiences of a wide variety of members of the London art elite. For example, there is the amoral art dealer Art Spindle who runs an art gallery with his protégés Beth and Paige. Spindle is determined to get his hands on Mondrian's famous Victory Boogie Woogie canvas from a German art tycoon, but he has to deal with a group of rival bidders.

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John Lee Hooker

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Anyway, I'm not very interested in the art and the way they sell it here is very sad. Gallery owners discuss the price of their common goods and to fill the void we see almost all women engage in some sensual contact. Then there is also a lesbian walking around with a camera that can effortlessly record everything without provoking reactions. The end result is even shown in a public space. The many nudes in between reminded me of our own country; superfluous and a cheap trick to hold the viewer's attention. Furthermore, there are implications that it's all a bit overblown like the moment Jo is writing a letter, simultaneously raises and lowers a dumbbell with his left hand and shortly afterwards sniffs away a white line). I didn't like this one.

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blurp194

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This film proves that you can still make a bad film with a lot of brilliant actors. Because that's what it is - a bad movie.

The story itself has enough potential, but does not make choices and therefore shifts. The contradictions between money and possessions, greed and love, art and tinkering, commerce and suffering - they're all there, but none of them really come into their own.

Christopher Lee plays a pleasant character. As one of the few, and perhaps he is actually all alone in that. The art world gets that kick - the only one who comes across as somewhat sympathetic is the owner who buys his art directly from the artist. The rest are amoral, money-hungry, dishonest, and probably more than that - all at the same time if necessary.

What the film is left with is the visual presence of Heather Graham and Amanda Seyfried. Still a bit skinny.

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Roger Thornhill

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Not much to add to the previous comments. Presumably set up as a huge satire on the art world in which virtually everyone involved – artists, gallery owners and owners – are out to gain, either financially or erotic or in terms of “investment” status, with the only two exceptions being the owner of the title object who is even facing death does not yet want to give up something that he alone attaches emotional value to, and the young art promoter who is considered a bit ridiculous by everyone and who in the end embraces self-imposed death . Unfortunately, there are too many plot lines and too many characters, so that nothing sticks and nobody gets the attention to stand out. Only that very last moment... Not necessarily bad but just too much of everything, both too much and not enough.

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