art film

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It’s an essayistic approach to drama, which it’s fair to identify as a subgenre of 21st-century art film: picturesque movies about displacement and drift that eschew traditional narrative drive.

From New York Times

However, with those highs comes plenty of meandering lows as the second act slows to a crawl, and the third act then spirals into a student art film with a head-scratching, unsatisfying conclusion.

From Washington Times

The movie has its own curator: Leonardo Bigazzi from the Florence-based organization Fondazione In Between Art Film, which explores the dialogue between the disciplines of moving and still images.

From Washington Post

Among the illustrious group is a handful of Hollywood talent: The actor Ethan Hawke, a symbol of restless Generation X Americana, chose Francis Ford Coppola’s “Rumble Fish,” a portrait of youthful small-town rebellion that Coppola once called “an art film for kids.”

From New York Times

Maron, who was chuckling throughout the hour-plus interview — though sometimes uncomfortably during this part — quizzed the actor as to whether there was a part of him that understood that this was an art film that told a specific story, and whether he understood that the blurb was a critic’s thought, not part of the movie itself.

From Los Angeles Times