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High Art
October Films
MPAA RATING: R for strong sexuality, pervasive drug use and language
Starring
Radha Mitchell,
Gabriel Mann,
Charis Michaelson,
David Thornton,
Anh Duong,
Ally Sheedy,
Patricia Clarkson,
and
Helen Mendes
An award-winning romantic drama about a photo magazine editor (Mitchell) and the heroin-addicted former photo prodigy (Sheedy) with whom she falls in love.
| GENRE(S): |
Romance
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Lisa Cholodenko
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Lisa Cholodenko
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: July 27, 2004
Video: July 27, 2004
Theatrical: June 12, 1998
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| RUNNING TIME: |
101 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA / Canada |
Winner, Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, 1998 Sundance Film Festival; Winner, Best Actress (Sheedy), 1999 National Society of Film Critics Awards; Winner, Best Female Lead (Sheedy), 1999 Independent Spirit Awards

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91
Entertainment Weekly
Beth Pinsker
Who knew that Brat Packer Sheedy would shine as a heroin-addicted photographer who had too much fame too early?

90
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
What makes High Art remarkable is Cholodenko's refusal to put her characters or story through a filter, her unblinking willingness to dive right in.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
So perceptive and mature it makes similar films seem flippant. The performances are on just the right note, scene after scene, for what needs to be done.

80
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
As storytelling it isn't always as clean as it might be, but this 1998 first feature by writer-director Lisa Cholodenko is an interesting debut for its nuanced sense of character and its terrific sex scenes--scenes that actually serve character development for a change.

80
Variety
Emanuel Levy
Compassionate and deft as Cholodenko's helming is, pic's overall impact largely depends on its central triangle.

80
The New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
To their credit, the actors immerse themselves deeply in the film's self-conscious aura. Ms. Sheedy reinvents herself as a tough, fascinating presence, while Ms. Mitchell's earnest bewilderment also serves the story well.

80
Dallas Observer
Peter Rainer
With more angst than you can shake a stick at, High Art sets a new course for the indie American film. Instead of the usual Scorsese-esque buddy confab, we have something closer to the funky Fassbinder world of marginalized, pansexual depressives.

78
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
A work that shellacs itself into your consciousness.

75
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
Sensitive acting and imaginative filmmaking help rescue the movie from potential excesses of its own.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
Though High Art has more than a few awkward touches--all the male characters take up less than one dimension, for example--it's otherwise a nicely underplayed, memorable, beautifully filmed movie.

70
TV Guide
Sandra Contreras
First-time director Lisa Cholodenko, who has made a powerful and modish film with a subtle and knowing script, is more than ably assisted by a spectacular cast.

63
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
I suppose High Art is as good a name as any for this pretentious melodrama, an often- diverting but ultimately pointless attempt to wed intellectual twaddle with a soap-opera-ish lesbian romance.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Has a subtle magnetism, and a real human pulse, especially as it concentrates on its two main characters.

60
Film Threat
Merle Bertrand
Solid debut effort from Lisa Cholodenko.

50
San Francisco Examiner
G. Allen Johnson
Cholodenko's strategy of having the actors, in every scene -- whether it involves Lucy, the boyfriend or the Frame editors -- perform with an intonational flatness approaching monotone pretentiously undermines the effectiveness of her subject matter.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Bob Graham
It is wonderful to see how Sheedy gives shape to this performance -- her eyes, a photographer's eyes, carefully sizing everything up. [18 June 1998, Daily Notebook, p.E1]
50
Los Angeles Times
Jack Mathews
High Art is, unfortunately, full of itself and its artistic pretensions.


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