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      Art History

      2011 1h 14m Drama List
      Reviews 31% 50+ Ratings Audience Score When a director becomes jealous of the relationship between his film's stars, his inner struggle threatens to derail production. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member 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. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member interesting mix of the filmmaking process and the emotions that go with it Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member 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! Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Neil Genzlinger New York Times Anyone who sees [the] insufferable "Art History" and doesn't wish for the 74 minutes back has an empty life indeed. Rated: 0/5 Sep 22, 2011 Full Review Michelle Orange Village Voice 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. Sep 20, 2011 Full Review Richard Brody New Yorker Few films turn the camera on the filmmaking process as bluntly or as harshly. Sep 19, 2011 Full Review Kam Williams NewsBlaze Another intriguing examination of the human condition courtesy of iconoclastic Mr. Swanberg! Rated: 4/4 Sep 24, 2011 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      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