Art History
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  • Summary: ART HISTORY delves into the emotional minefield of intimate low-budget filmmaking. Sam, a film director, has feelings for Juliette, the lead actress in his current production. He must maintain a professional relationship with her while they work on a sexually explicit relationship drama centered on a couple's one night stand. All is going well until Juliette and her co-star, Eric, develop feelings for each other that they explore off camera.
    Sam is happy that his actors have such good chemistry, but feels jealous at the same time. Juliette feels Sam's shifting moods and does her best to show him affection, but his own inner struggles threaten to derail the production. (Joe Swanberg Films)    … Expand

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. indieWIRE
    Reviewed by: Eric Kohn
    Sep 20, 2011
    75
    Art History is essentially Swanberg's version of "Zach and Miri Make a Porno," and, within the larger context of his career, just as inconsequential.
  2. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Jesse Cataldo
    Sep 19, 2011
    75
    The staging of this dissociative roundelay is still presented in a forcefully lo-fi format, prizing roughly framed shots, improvisation, and flat characters, but there are ever clearer indications that Swanberg is producing something more than empty-headed slacker cinema.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michelle Orange
    Sep 20, 2011
    50
    Swanberg has discovered lighting and mood-to occasionally stunning effect. Perhaps in some future memo from the front lines of indie-sploitation, he will unite them with story and more than a superficial nod to character.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Sep 22, 2011
    0
    Somebody must think Joe Swanberg's mumblecore mush is worth the time it takes to watch it, because he keeps making it. But anyone who sees his insufferable Art History and doesn't wish for the 74 minutes back has an empty life indeed.

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