The Moderns

The Moderns (1988)

  • 75% of critics liked it
    (16 reviews)

  • 59% of users liked it
    (844 ratings)

In the expatriate-littered Paris of the 1920s, painter Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) mingles with Ernest Hemingway (Kevin O'Connor) and other leading lights of the Lost Generation while palling around with gossip columnist Oiseau (Wallace Shawn), whose reportage has helped establish the… More

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Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Jan 1, 1988 Wide

Critic Reviews

  • Vincent Canby, New York Times

    A movie that makes an afternoon with Gertrude and Alice more boring than a faculty tea.

  • Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

    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.

  • Rita Kempley, Washington Post

    Everything is ersatz, even the surrealism in Alan Rudolph's 10th movie.

  • Desson Thomson, Washington Post

    Rudolph's weaknesses pale before the film's overriding textures: Toyomichi Kurita's cinematography exquisitely crosses color with sepia and blacks and whites.

  • Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

    A casually absurd, surprisingly playful look into the lives of American expatriates --Gertrude Stein's famous "lost generation" -- in post-World War I Paris.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Cassandra M


    This is a fairly enjoyable tale set in the art world of 1920s Paris. The look of the film and the mood it creates are the most important things; far more important than the enjoyable, yet slow-moving plotline. It is highly imaginative and its representation of icons such as Ernest… More

  • Walter M


    [font=Century Gothic]"The Moderns" takes place in 1920's Paris where Nick Hart(Keith Carradine) is a starving artist who makes his living drawing cartoons to accompany the columns written by Oiseau(Wallace Shawn) in the Tribune.(Taking the high road, he has declined a… More

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