Art School Confidential (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.3/10   

Director:

Terry Zwigoff

Escritores (WGA):

Daniel Clowes (screenplay)
Daniel Clowes (comic story)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

10 noviembre 2006 (Poland)

Género:

Comedia | Drama

Frase comercial:

Who said anything about talent?

Plot:

Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.

Plot Keywords:

Drawing | Strangler | New York City | Art School | Dinner Scene

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Another misfire

Reparto

Max Minghella	...	Jerome
Sophia Myles	...	Audrey
John Malkovich	...	Professor Sandiford
Jim Broadbent	...	Jimmy
Matt Keeslar	...	Jonah
Ethan Suplee	...	Vince
Joel Moore	...	Bardo (as Joel David Moore)
Nick Swardson	...	Matthew
Anjelica Huston	...	Art History Teacher
Adam Scott	...	Marvin Bushmiller
Jack Ong	...	Professor Okamura
Scoot McNairy	...	Army-Jacket
Jeremy Guskin	...	Eno
Monika Ramnath	...	Flower
Isaac Laskin	...	Kiss-Ass

También conocida como:

El arte de estrangular (Spain) (DVD title) [es]
El arte de la seducción (Argentina) (DVD title) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for language including sexual references, nudity and a scene of violence.

Duración:

USA:102 min | 102 min (Sundance Film Festival) | Argentina:102 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital | DTS

Clasificación:

Canada:14A (Ontario) | Singapore:M18 | Argentina:16 | USA:R (certificate #41649) | Australia:MA | Germany:12 | New Zealand:R16 | USA:R

Locaciones de Filmación:

Communications Building, Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, California, USA

Compañía:

United Artists

Trivialidades:

During the television interviews that take place near the end while Jarome is in jail, Ethan Suplee's character is dressed like director Kevin Smith. Ethan Suplee appeared in four of Kevin Smith's films; Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997) Dogma (1999), and Clerks II (2006).

Errores:

Errores que Revelan: When Jerome's roommate, the fashion designer, is sewing on his machine, it wasn't threaded correctly. The spool was on the bobbin loader, not the spool pin where it should be.

Citas:

Young Jerome: [dressed as Pablo Picasso] I am a genius. I am the greatest artist of the twentieth century. I pretty much invented modern art, and I do weird abstract paintings even though I could paint totally realistic if I wanted to. Also, even though I am super short and bald, I am able to have sex with any beautiful woman I want just because I'm so great.

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in Be Kind Rewind (2008)

Banda de Sonido:

In Storm and Sunshine

Another misfire

Much of the problem with Art School Confidential lies with the character of Jerome. Clowes writes graphic novels, and the main character he's written here is simply a cartoon figure with no depth to speak of. He falls much too fast from his ambition of becoming the world's greatest artist to someone willing to compromise his talent for the sake of coming in first in a college competition. Granted, he is pliable, aping whoever he happens to be with at the moment—it's Bardo one moment, star alumnus Marvin Bushmiller (Adam Scott) the next— and adopting the bitter, nihilistic rantings of failed artist Jimmy (Jim Broadbent) as if those beliefs were his own. This might all be interesting if Jerome was, say, the type of troubled, seeking boy that Minghella played in Bee Season. Sadly he is not, and though Minghella is a fine actor, there's not a lot he can do with what is essentially a stick figure.

That's not to say that Art School Confidential is completely worthless. Malkovich (who also produced) is very funny, and so is Broadbent, but mostly this feels like the type of comedy Jerome's roommate Vince might someday make: overly broad, obvious, and very self- conscious. It wants to be cool, it wants to be hip, but like Jerome in his quest to be the next Picasso, it's merely clueless.