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Jul 3, 1998 · “High Art” is masterful in the little details. It knows how these people might talk, how they might respond. It knows that Lucy, Greta and the almost otherworldly Arnie might use heroin and then play Scrabble. It is so boring, being high in an empty life.
A surprisingly sultry performance from Ally Sheedy elevates High Art from pretentious melodrama to compelling -- if still a little pretentious -- romance. Read Critics Reviews
- (50)
- Lisa Cholodenko
- R
- Ally Sheedy
High Art: Directed by Lisa Cholodenko. With Radha Mitchell, Gabriel Mann, Charis Michelsen, David Thornton. A young female intern at a small magazine company and a drug-addicted lesbian photographer slowly fall in love while exploiting each other to advance their respective careers.
- (11K)
- Drama, Romance
- Lisa Cholodenko
- 1998-06-12
The film received largely positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for Sheedy's performance, which earned several accolades, including the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress.
Jun 12, 1998 · National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA. • 1 Win & 2 Nominations. An award-winning romantic drama about a photo magazine editor (Mitchell) and the heroin-addicted former photo prodigy (Sheedy) with whom she falls in love.
- (17)
- Lisa Cholodenko
- R
- Radha Mitchell
High Art is often compelling and uncannily accurate in its evocation of downtown demi-monde characters and druggy, entropic milieu-the art in this film is high in more ways than one.
Mar 26, 2020 · Twenty-two years later, High Art (1998)—director Lisa Cholodenko’s first feature film—resonates simultaneously as a timeless meditation on love, loss and art and as a trenchant drama with distinctive roots in 1990s aesthetics, culture and social issues.
