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Art School Confidential

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Art School Confidential

Adam Scott, Anjelica Huston, Ethan Suplee, Isaac Laskin, Jack Ong

"Art School Confidential" follows Jerome, an art student who dreams of becoming the greatest artist in the world. Arriving as a freshman at a prestigious East Coast art school, filled with every artsy...( read more  read more... ) "type" there is, Jerome quickly discovers his affected style and arrogance won't get him very far. When he sees that a clueless jock is attracting the glory rightfully due him, he hatches an all-or-nothing plan to hit it big in the art world and win the heart of the most beautiful girl in the school.

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  • Redlats
    April 9, 2009
    Redlats
    I haven't been to art school, but the jokes about art teachers and students are pretty funny. The movie deteriorates as it goes on, and I didn't think much of the ending.
  • mjgildea
    October 24, 2008
    mjgildea
    Art School Confidential seems to take the art class scenes from another Terry Zwifoff/Daniel Clowes project Ghost World and tries to elaborate on it. The first half was great as it laughs at all the cliches an art school is undoubtedly filled to the brim with. About half to 2/3rd...( read more)s of the way in Art School Confidential tries to develop a tangible plot and that's where the whole thing stalls out. The last 20 minutes is like a really long funeral but it's got a great cast and for a while I laughed a lot. Proceed with caution...
  • franktowers
    October 15, 2008
    franktowers
    haha, silly
  • hobster1
    June 17, 2008
    hobster1
    Refreshingly cynical look at the art world and people who take themselves too seriously. Intelligently written. If you've ever looked at Warhol's Campbell's Soup I and thought, "Huh?", add another star.
  • Gx7
    October 31, 2007
    Gx7
    This was one disappointing movie. Blfffftt!
  • frankjr19
    December 31, 2009
    frankjr19
    Une oeuvre pointilleuse, délicate, ardue, qui pèse bien fort sur les mots qu'elle emploie. Bref, une oeuvre comme je les aime. Le scénario en lui-même est abstrait, difficile à cerner, et c'est ce qui fait toute la beauté de l'oeuvre. En fait, je me suis demandé, après l'écoute d...( read more)u film: ''Qu'est-ce que je pourrais bien dire sur ce film?'' Car il n'y a rien à dire. Il faut simplement prendre le temps de savourer son écoute, car on sait que celle-ci est unique, et qu'aucun autre film ne s'approchera de celle-ci.

    Donc, je ne dirai rien. Rien de plus.
  • julianlb
    November 12, 2009
    julianlb
    Depois de "Crumb", do especialíssimo "Ghost World" e do divertido "Bad Santa", todos filmes muito bons de Terry Zwigoff, minhas expectativas não foram correspondidas com este "Art School Confidential". O filme tem roteiro fraco e confuso envolvendo artes e assassinatos e um perso...( read more)nagem central muito sem graça e tonto. Razoável apenas esse filme.
  • eifersucht
    September 10, 2009
    eifersucht
    Ni siquiera Anjelica Huston, John Malkovich, o Steve Buscemi pudieron salvar esta película de ser un absoluto fracaso. La idea central del guión era buena pero no fue desarrollada adecuandamente. Por momentos el guión gozó de mucha genialidad, especialmente en las escenas en dond...( read more)e participó Jim Broadbent como Jimmy, pero por desgracia en el resto de las ocasiones cayó en el uso de situaciones aleatorias para hilar la historia y desarrollar el problema, además de servirse del asqueroso cliché.
  • killantzb4itzl8
    September 8, 2009
    killantzb4itzl8
    Controversial art films, got to love them.
    One of my all time favorite movies. I can't tell you how many times I've seen it. I fell in love with Max Minghella's character. He deserves more fame.

    Young Jerome: [dressed as Pablo Picasso] I am a genius. I am the greatest artist of...( read more) the twentieth century. I pretty much invented modern art, and I do weird abstract paintings even though I could paint totally realistic if I wanted to. Also, even though I am super short and bald, I am able to have sex with any beautiful woman I want just because I'm so great.
  • marioehrler
    September 4, 2009
    marioehrler
    What can I say? I always considered that art- as in paintings, drawings and such- was a very complicated thing to follow. I mean, you see a painting, you let it be absorbed into your consciousness, you reflect about it, and then you decide about what it means and whether it has a...( read more)ny significance to you. But how do you know if it's actually "art"?

    This is why I found Terry Zwigoff's "Art School Confidential" to be an utterly refreshing look at the art world, which is even more complicated than what I actually believed it to be. The film deals with a quiet, lonely boy called Jerome Platz (Max Minghella), who has been bullied and ignored ever since he was a child. Now, Jerome's hero is Pablo Picasso, and ever since he remember he's wanted to be a grand artist, like his hero. "I wanna be the greatest artist of the 21st century!," he often squeals delightedly throughout the film.

    Anyway, little Jerome grows up, graduates from high-school and decides to enroll in a renowned art school, where young artists whose art is actually new and modern can hope to make a name out of themselves. This college is a tiny but colourful world populated with a large array of weird and quirky characters, all of them "artists", and in comes young, boyish, quiet Jerome trying to be an artist like all of them.

    Upon entering his dorm room, he encounters his two roommates, a fat film major (Ethan Suplee) working on a short film based on some murders that have been terrorizing the campus grounds, and a noticeably gay fashion major (Nick Swardson) who swears he misses his girlfriend.

    And in his most important class, little Jerome meets his holier-than-thou professor (John Malkovich) who's so full of himself to actually notice any of his students' work, a flunkie (Joel David Moore) who enrolled into art school just for the 'pussy', and...a gorgeous, sophisticated model (Sophia Myles) who also happens to be the daughter of a famous painter and who instantly becomes Jerome's muse and obsession.

    Throughout the film, which is perfectly written and refreshingly funny, we follow Jerome's steady psychological downfall. He begins as a happy and anxious boy with dreams, and he slowly progresses into a disheartened, depressed, suicidal failure of an artist. This happens because his art isn't appreciated at all, because he notices how arbitrary and tediously unnerving the "art world" really is, and because his muse and obsession doesn't pay him any attention and prefers to mingle with a hunky, handsome new art student who also becomes the number one artist in school and who's "art" (if it can even be called that) Jerome loathes above anything else.

    Why brings me back to the initial question: how do you know if something is really "art"? Through various hilarious and original encounters with artists, conneisseurs and art grads, Jerome begins to put two and two together and finds that this world that he so reveres is actually soul-sucking and lifeless. "It's not about how good you are," an art school grad (Jim Broadbent) says, "It's about how good you are at cock-sucking."

    But then, just when poor Jerome is about to give up on his life, his art, his everything...well, something happens that will give him one last chance to make a name for himself, to conquer his muse and adoration and to make sense out of all the craziness he's living through.

    More than an ironic film that exposes "art" as we know it nowadays, this film touches on the basic human feelings of failure, redemption and need. It also talks about love. And it's also very, very funny...which is good, because there is still comedy in life's tragedies, isn't there?

    I highly recommend this film. Believe me, you will not be disappointed!

    Rating: 4 stars out of 4!!
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