Genre: Drama, Comedy, Comic Book
Plot: "Art School Confidential" follows a talented young artist Jerome Platz (Max Minghella) as he escapes from high school to a tiny East Coast art school. Here the boyish freshman's ambition is to become the world's greatest artist, like his hero Picasso.Unfortunately, the beauty and craft of Jerome's portraiture are not appreciated in an anything-goes art class that he finds bewildering and bogus. Neither his harsh judgments of his classmates' efforts or his later attempts to create pseudo-art of his own win him any admirers. But Jerome does attract the attentions of his dream girl — the stunning and sophisticated Audrey (Sophia Myles) — an artist's model and daughter of a celebrated artist. Rejecting the affectations of the local art scene, Audrey is drawn to Jerome's sincerity. When Audrey shifts her attentions to Jonah (Matt Keeslar), a hunky painter who becomes the school's latest art star, Jerome is heartbroken. Desperate, he concocts a risky plan to make a name for himself and win her back. Filling out Jerome's world are a host of offbeat characters, including: a quirky art teacher (John Malkovich) who takes an extra-curricular interest in Jerome; a failed artist (Jim Broadbent), drowning in alcohol and self-pity; a regal art history professor (Anjelica Huston) Jerome
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 The film freely crosses genres - romance, parody, comedy, mystery - without caring that there are times when the transitions are bumpy and the ingredients begin to curdle. Overall, however, Art School Confidential works because it provides nicely developed characters to accompany us on the journey into black satire, and because it refuses to pull punches. Art School Confidential shows the kind of backbone needed by limp parodies like Thank You for Smoking and American Dreamz.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
It should also be mentioned that "Art School Confidential" is pretty flat looking for a film about would-be artists, but maybe that's the point. There is also no attempt to incorporate the 50's crime magazine visuals implied by its title. "Brick" was a superlative example of seamlessly mixing genres, but in "Art School" the glue is showing. B---Robin and Laura Clifford
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Daniel Clowes
Ghost World, Master of Space and Time, Untitled Daniel Clowes Project |
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| Cast |
John Malkovich
Being John Malkovich, Con Air, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy |
 | Jim Broadbent
Moulin Rouge!, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Gangs of New York |
 | Matt Keeslar
Scream 3, Waiting for Guffman, The Last Days of Disco |
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 | Anjelica Huston
The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Addams Family |
 | | Sophia Myles
Underworld, Underworld: Evolution, Tristan + Isolde | |
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...is a quirky and diverting entertainment full of truth and absurdity, not unlike reality. Less satisfying overall than it could have been, it nonetheless boasts a sublime cynicism and just enough of a twinkle in its metaphorical eye to let most of us in on the joke.  --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
...But before long, the film veers into the serial-killer plot, half-heartedly trying for laughs while it goes through the motions of solving the murders. It's a daring ploy -- come for the laughs, stay for the pitch-black dissertation on art and fame ... C--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
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