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Art History

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When a director becomes jealous of the relationship between his film's stars, his inner struggle threatens to derail production.

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Neil Genzlinger New York Times 09/22/2011
0/5
Anyone who sees [the] insufferable "Art History" and doesn't wish for the 74 minutes back has an empty life indeed. Go to Full Review
Michelle Orange Village Voice 09/20/2011
Swanberg has discovered lighting and mood -- to occasionally stunning effect. Perhaps in some future memo from the front lines of indie-sploitation, he will unite them with story and more than a superficial nod to character. Go to Full Review
Richard Brody The New Yorker 09/19/2011
Few films turn the camera on the filmmaking process as bluntly or as harshly. Go to Full Review
Kam Williams NewsBlaze 09/24/2011
4/4
Another intriguing examination of the human condition courtesy of iconoclastic Mr. Swanberg! Go to Full Review
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04/05/2016 Josephine Decker and Kent Osborne are the actors. Joe Swanberg is the director. At least this is the film's set-up. This second of Swanberg's Full Moon Trilogy signaled a key shift in his filmmaking. His "no style" approach clearly forms into his own cinematic language. Nothing feels immature. You might think the line between reality and film-within-a-film is clear -- but there is a constant lingering level of "anti-suspense" that you are not able to identify the difference. An often uneasy study of an artist grappling with his art that he may or may not want to bend into his own reality. There is brilliance here. See more 02/01/2014 interesting mix of the filmmaking process and the emotions that go with it See more 11/08/2011 was a US indie documentary part of a triology about an American cinematographer who's shooting amateur porn who interferes/interacts too much with his actors and alters the chemistry of the crew by falling for his female lead. This bored the hell out of me. Plus, the lead actors were plain Janes - brown, mousy, rail thin - nothing short of ordinary. I left early so I can't comment on this. Just a lot of superfluous drama over long shots of minutia. Yawn! See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis When a director becomes jealous of the relationship between his film's stars, his inner struggle threatens to derail production.
Director
Joe Swanberg
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 14m