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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Salesrank: 39498
Released: September 17, 2002 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
This witty, elegant, graceful and clever film (Los Angeles Reader) stunningly evokes the legendary milieu of Paris café society. Starring Keith Carradine, Linda Fiorentino, Genevieve Bujold,Geraldine Chaplin, Wallace Shawn and John Lone, The Moderns is 'tantalizing unabashedly romantic [and] a glowing evocation of an era (The Hollywood Reporter)! Paris, 1926. A time whenanything could happen and usually did. At the center of this world is Nick Hart (Carradine), a struggling painter who makes a meager living drawing caricatures at his favorite café. Nick longs for success and even agrees to forge masterpieces for a wealthy divorcée (Chaplin). But what he really desires is Rachel (Fiorentino), the seductive wife of an obsessively jealousand lethally dangerous businessman (Lone).
The Moderns Reviews:
Miss the subtitles 
2008-07-14 - I love this movie and my only issue is that the VCR version, subtitled when the characters spoke French - some very amusing asides are lost in the DVD version because the French is not subtitled. Otherwise, I can't recommend it enough.
Call Me Old Fashioned 
2008-07-03 - Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) is a pretentious American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He wastes most of his time boozing and posing in local cafe's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin (Geneviève Bujold) to sell his lame paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville (Geraldine Chaplin) to forge three paintings, substituting them for the real ones owned by her husband who she is in the process of divorcing. This leads to friction with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone (John Lone), who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel (Linda Fiorentino).
I have wanted to see this film for a long time, but what a disappointment. Main problem, is somehow Keith Carradine seems like he thinks he is so edgy and darkly creative, kind of like the character he plays. Smug about his talent, but showing little evidence that it exists. I was very interested in the paintings from that period, and the Paris expatriate community, but what it showed veered in tone from the pedantic to the ridiculous. Hemmingway, Alice B. Toklas, and Gertrude Stein make an appearance, but are utter cartoons. Bertram Stone, Nick Hart's nemesis, is another badly told joke. For no reason that makes any sense whatsoever he has a fixation on Houdini. I wish I could've escaped from seeing this movie. Finally, Wallace Shawn is an obnoxious gossip columnist named Oiseau. At one point, he is even in drag. He is already ugly enough as a man, and as a woman, his ugliness rivals former FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. If these are The Moderns, then call me old fashioned.
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Alan Rudolph .... Director
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Songwriter (1984)
Roadie (1980)
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Keith Carradine .... Nick Hart
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) .... Will Rogers
CrissCross (1992) .... John Cross
Nashville (1975) .... Tom Frank
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991) .... Marvin Macy
Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? (1990) .... Clarence
Trouble in Mind (1985) .... Coop
Maria's Lovers (1984) .... Clarence Butts
The Long Riders (1980) .... Jim Younger
An Almost Perfect Affair (1979) .... Hal Raymond
Old Boyfriends (1979) .... Wayne Van Til
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) .... Our Guests at Heartland
Pretty Baby (1978) .... Bellocq
The Duellists (1977) .... D'Hubert
Welcome to L.A. (1976) .... Carroll Barber
Lumière (1976) .... David
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Linda Fiorentino .... Rachel Stone
Dogma (1999) .... Bethany Sloane
Body Count (1998) .... Natalie
Men in Black (1997) .... Dr. Laurel Weaver / Agent L (Elle)
Kicked in the Head (1997) .... Megan
Larger Than Life (1996) .... Terry Bonura
Unforgettable (1996) .... Dr. Martha Briggs
Bodily Harm (1995) .... Rita Cates
Jade (1995) .... Trina Gavin
The Desperate Trail (1995) (V) .... Sarah O'Rourke
The Last Seduction (1994) .... Bridget Gregory / Wendy Kroy
Charlie's Ghost Story (1994) .... Marta
Acting on Impulse (1993) (TV) .... Susan Gittes
Chain of Desire (1992) .... Alma D'Angeli
Beyond the Law (1992) .... Renee Jason
Shout (1991) .... Molly
Queens Logic (1991) .... Carla
Strangers (1991) .... Helen
The Neon Empire (1989) (TV) .... Lucy
Wildfire (1988) .... Kay
After Hours (1985) .... Kiki Bridges
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John Lone .... Bertram Stone
The Last Emperor - Criterion Collection (1987) .... Emperor Pu Yi / Henry
Echoes of Paradise (1987) .... Raka
Year of the Dragon (1985) .... Joey Tai
Iceman (1984) .... Charlie, the Iceman
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Wallace Shawn .... Oiseau
The Incredibles (2004) (voice) .... Gilbert Huph
All Dogs Go to Heaven 2 (1996) (voice) .... Labrador MC
Toy Story (1995) (voice) .... Rex
Clueless (1995) .... Mr. Wendell Hall
Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994) .... Horatio Byrd
Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989) .... Howard
The Princess Bride (1987) .... Vizzini
Prick Up Your Ears (1987) .... John Lahr
Nice Girls Don't Explode (1987) .... Ellen
Radio Days (1987) .... Masked Avenger
My Dinner with Andre (1981) .... Wally Shawn
Cheaper to Keep Her (1981) .... Mugger
Atlantic City (1980) (as Wally Shawn) .... Waiter
Simon (1980) .... Eric Van Dongen
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Geneviève Bujold .... Libby Valentin
You Can Thank Me Later (1998) .... Joelle
The House of Yes (1997) (as Genevieve Bujold) .... Mrs. Pascal
The Adventures of Pinocchio (1996) .... Leona
Dead Innocent (1996) .... Suzanne St. Laurent
Mon amie Max (1994) .... Marie-Alexandrine Brabant
An Ambush of Ghosts (1993) .... Irene Betts
The Dance Goes On (1992)
Oh, What a Night (1992) (V) .... Eva
Rue du Bac (1991) .... Marie Aubriac
False Identity (1990) .... Rachel Roux
Trouble in Mind (1985) .... Wanda
Choose Me (1984) .... Nancy
Tightrope (1984) .... Beryl Thibodeaux
Monsignor (1982) .... Clara
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Geraldine Chaplin .... Nathalie de Ville
Jane Eyre (1996) .... Miss Scatcherd
Home for the Holidays (1995) .... Aunt Gladys
Para recibir el canto de los pájaros (1995) .... Catherine
Words Upon the Window Pane (1994) .... Miss McKenna
A Foreign Field (1993) .... Beverly
The Age of Innocence (1993) .... Mrs. Welland
Chaplin (1992) .... Hannah Chaplin
Remember My Name (1978) .... Emily
Welcome to L.A. (1976) .... Karen Hood
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Oiseau: [while observing his own faked funeral disguised in drag] If it weren't for me, these people would think surreal was a breakfast food!
no way 
2008-03-13 - 5 minutes in I could tell this was going to be garbage. Really horrible. Really. Its just some 1920's wet dream played out between two boring lead roles. I love the guy who is supposed to be hemingway. Are you serious?
A Brittle Film About Paris In The 1920's
2008-02-27 - Director Alan Rudolph's "The Moderns" is all about Paris in the 1920's and captures the cafe society, the American expatriates, the artists and the pretentiousness and shallowness of the times. Keith Carradine is an American artist who cannot make a living and is obsessed with Rachel (Linda Fiorentino) who is married to a boorish businessman Bert Stone (John Lone) who has made his fortune in condoms. The plot has enough surprises to keep you interested most of the time, although the film, for all its beautiful cinematography and attention to detail, ultimately is a bit slow.
Fictional characters intermingle with Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein and Alice to give the film a feeling of authenticity. Genevieve Bujold plays a gallery owner and Geraldine Chaplin is a wealthy heiress who convinces Nick to copy masterpieces. The movie belongs to Keith Carradine and Linda Fiorentino, however, who have one of the hottest sex scenes in a bathtub that you'll ever see. It sizzles. This is one of those films that you like much more after you've had time to mull over it.
Clever and Surprising Little Story-
2008-02-23 - Odd and Excentric View of Paris in the 1920s.
Loved the comic relief of Wallace Shawn.
Clever to have Hemingway so involved, here and there..
