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“The Moderns” is equally puerile, but more fun. It takes place at that enchanted moment in Paris when the Lost Generation created itself and then proceeded to create, promote, fabricate and publicize modern literature, art, music and attitudes.
- Choose Me
Apart from its other qualities, which are many, Alan Rudolph...
- Trouble in Mind
To really get inside the spirit of "Trouble in Mind," it...
- Choose Me
81% Tomatometer 21 Reviews 62% Audience Score 500+ Ratings In the Roaring Twenties, aspiring painter Nick Hart (Keith Carradine), a U.S. expat who has decamped to Paris, tries to scrape...
- (21)
- Alan Rudolph
- R
- Keith Carradine
TOP CRITIC. The movie's disparate elements are unified less by the plot than by Rudolph's distinctive, rhapsodic style, with its sinuous long takes and archly elusive performances. Full Review |...
The Moderns: Directed by Alan Rudolph. With Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Wallace Shawn, Geneviève Bujold. A struggling artist is hired to forge paintings, causing him to cross paths with his ex-wife and her powerful new husband.
- (2K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Alan Rudolph
- 1988-05
The film received fairly positive reviews from critics, and it holds an 81% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 21 reviews. It was nominated for three Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Supporting Male for John Lone, Best Screenplay, and Best Cinematography.
User Reviews. Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) is an ex-patriot American painter who lives in Paris in the 1920's. He picks up some money selling caricatures but is very poor. An art gallery owner, Libby (Genevieve Bujold) is sympathetic but can't muster up many sales for Nick's work. Now, a wealthy divorcée.
Aug 10, 2017 · Bujold’s last appearance with Alan Rudolph is in 1988’s The Moderns, a high-minded, sometimes amusing attempt to examine the potent ex-pat community of 1920s Paris wherein figures like Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald, Alice B. Toklas, and many more proliferated the literary and artistic zeitgeist.
