Film
The Moderns
Thursday, June 16, 2011
7 p.m.
Additional Info
Alan Rudolph, 1988, 126 min., 35mm
Image: Alan Rudolph, The Moderns (still), 1988; image courtesy of MGM
Print courtesy of MGM.
The Moderns follows Nick Hart, a struggling painter at the center of the expatriate culture of 1920s Paris, as he navigates the Left Bank milieu. From cafe conversations to sordid love intrigue, sketching caricatures to forging paintings, Hart comes in contact with not only Gertrude Stein and others in her salon circle, but also a dangerous businessman, the husband of one of his paramours.