Movie Reviews for The Moderns

The Moderns

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Movie Reviews of The Moderns

Movie Review: Have you ever been in love ?
Summary: 5 Stars

'The Moderns' is a moody , insightful film about love, redemption, art and music. A fanciful 1920's Paris plays witness to the dramas that unfold. The soundtrack is incredible. Carradine is perfect. Linda Florentino is smooth and sensual (before she got boobs). Wallace Shawn plays the dorky gossip columnist to a 'T'. John Lone (the bartender in Kill Bill) plays the bad guy ( but in the end kind of sympathetic). The cafe ambience is a steadfast landmark of Paris. Hemingway, Toklas, Stein,
James Joyce, and Sylvia Beach (proprietor of Shakespeare and Company (Paris) all make their appearances. See this movie. Buy the dvd. Get the music. Dream it.

Movie Review: The bitter gaze!
Summary: 5 Stars

The ironic at the Paris of the twenties is told with exquisite inventive and a architectural script that really engages you, Keith Carradine as the expatriated painter and Walace Shawn as the gossip columnist conform a team hard to die.

This was the most promissory movie of a young and raising promise of the new expression of the American Cinema. Pitifully the effort through the time of Alan Rudolph did not maintain.

Movie Review: A Brittle Film About Paris In The 1920's
Summary: 4 Stars

Director Alan Rudolph's "The Moderns" is all about Paris in the 1920's and captures the cafe society, the American expatriates, the artists and the pretentiousness and shallowness of the times. Keith Carradine is an American artist who cannot make a living and is obsessed with Rachel (Linda Fiorentino) who is married to a boorish businessman Bert Stone (John Lone) who has made his fortune in condoms. The plot has enough surprises to keep you interested most of the time, although the film, for all its beautiful cinematography and attention to detail, ultimately is a bit slow.

Fictional characters intermingle with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Alice to give the film a feeling of authenticity. Genevieve Bujold plays a gallery owner and Geraldine Chaplin is a wealthy heiress who convinces Nick to copy masterpieces. The movie belongs to Keith Carradine and Linda Fiorentino, however, who have one of the hottest sex scenes in a bathtub that you'll ever see. It sizzles. This is one of those films that you like much more after you've had time to mull over it.

Movie Review: Miss the subtitles
Summary: 4 Stars

I love this movie and my only issue is that the VCR version, subtitled when the characters spoke French - some very amusing asides are lost in the DVD version because the French is not subtitled. Otherwise, I can't recommend it enough.