The Moderns

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 international ...more

Its plot may concern intrigue, greed, and heartache in the world of painting, but the screenplay for this stylish paean to the Lost Generation leans more toward literature than the visual arts. Full of subtle parallels, gentle ironies, and tons of literary and artistic in-jokes, The Moderns unfolds like a highbrow novel, its involved plot merely a framework on which to hang its many additional concerns. The three-way relationship between life, art, and money emerges as the film's primary theme, ...more