art movie

It brings to mind another New York art movie, “Six Degrees of Separation,” which had the elegance of John Guare’s play to bind its elements more firmly.

“But it’s also about a white guy, which almost every art movie is about.”

Many a smitten critic has admired how the film manages to be both a thriller and an art movie, a raging exemplar of the French mode tattooed upon my heart: cinéma du look.

Typically, art/movie/book critics don’t look at something and stop with the questions, “Do I like it?” or “Do I approve?”

A pale, skinny teenager with a nest of tight curls, he landed roles as the tuberculosis-ridden younger brother of Ben Whishaw’s Keats in the film “Bright Star,” and an anguished drug user in Gaspar Noé’s trippy art movie “Enter the Void.”