My Art

Name: My Art
Genre: Drama
Released: January 12, 2018
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 53
Cast: Becky Sawicki, Benjamin Eakeley, Blair Brown, Garland Hunter, Grace Dunham

2018

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Film Movement | Release Date: January 12, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Becky Sawicki, Benjamin Eakeley, Blair Brown, Garland Hunter, Grace Dunham, John Rothman, Joshua Safdie, Lena Dunham, Parker Posey, Robert Clohessy, Tommy Kha

Summary: Ellie Shine (Laurie Simmons) is a single artist living in New York City. Ellie has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As her decades-old dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent. When she isEllie Shine (Laurie Simmons) is a single artist living in New York City. Ellie has a good life: a stable teaching job, successful friends, and a loyal, aging dog named Bing. As her decades-old dream of a respectable place in the art world becomes more elusive, her frustration with her lack of recognition feels alarmingly urgent. When she is offered the summer house and studio of a famous friend in Upstate New York she seizes the opportunity to hit the reset button on her life and work. She unwittingly finds inspiration in two out-of-work actors who maintain the gardens at her summer retreat: Frank (Robert Clohessy), a recent widower trying to reassemble his life by turning his back on a mediocre acting career, and Tom (Josh Safdie), a young, hungry actor whose wife (Parker Posey) has a less ambitious vision for their idyllic country life. Joining them is John (John Rothman), a thrice-divorced, disillusioned lawyer looking for a summer distraction. This unlikely trio helps Ellie reinvent her artistic identity by participating in her DIY art videos—improbable recreations of old Hollywood films. They accompany Ellie on an odd and unexpected journey toward finding her late-blooming artistic momentum.… Expand

Director: Laurie Simmons

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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The Film Stage Jonah Jeng

Jan 13, 2018

The film possesses a low-key tone and overall modesty of presentation that, though at points borderline sleep-inducing, departs pleasingly from the trope of the tortured artist who wrestles with inner demons in the direction of the camera. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Matt Fagerholm

Jan 12, 2018

One of the most refreshing things about Laurie Simmons’ similarly provocative feature directorial debut, My Art, is in how it challenges the very notion of what constitutes a happy ending. Read full review

Richard Brody

Jan 8, 2018

A frankly practical look at professionalism and its blurry borders. Read full review

Robert Abele

Jan 12, 2018

It’s a quiet, eccentric comedy-drama about artistic inspiration that won’t knock your socks off, but it has its own awkward charms about how artists forge their identity while wrestling with professional boundaries. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Jan 18, 2018

The very artlessness of My Art is what sometimes makes it endearing, but its storytelling could use a few more foundational lines. Read full review

The Playlist Lena Wilson

Jan 10, 2018

Simmons is naturally charming, but that only goes so far in a film strung together by half-baked characters and a gimmick. Read full review

Ben Kenigsberg

Jan 11, 2018

My Art invests far too much in the conceit. (The re-creations look like unfunny “Airplane!” parodies.) Part of the problem is that Ms. Simmons has surrounded herself with more interesting actors, including a scene-stealing Parker Posey. Read full review

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