The Artist and the Model
Cohen Media Group | Release Date: August 2, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
10
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
EmpireDavid ParkinsonSep 9, 2013
Shot in magisterial black-and-white, veteran director Trueba's drama is a welcome return from the Belle Epoque man. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinJul 31, 2013
The lovely and poignant drama The Artist and the Model stirringly presents art, life and death as one irrevocably tangled trio. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comSteven BooneAug 2, 2013
The Artist and the Model is a simple, straightforward film about the wonder and awe that the natural world inspires in us. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerAug 2, 2013
It’s a miniature art history lesson that is also a rapt communion between two people who, at least in this moment, are joined in the ecstasy of creation. Read full review
67
Portland OregonianMarc MohanSep 13, 2013
Well-crafted as it is, though, The Artist and the Model suffers from the familiarity of its plot, and especially in comparison with "La belle noiseuse," which ran over twice as long as this film but contained ten times as much insight into human nature. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJul 31, 2013
A wholly fictional tale, and while it has a few lovely, tender moments, there’s a definite feeling of “been there, drawn that.” Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottSep 6, 2013
Thanks to Rochefort and Folch, as well as Trueba's delicate direction, it still manages to be an embraceable journey, one with its own quiet -- and artistic -- rewards. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 1, 2013
Much like “La Belle Noiseuse,” the 1991 Jacques Rivette film it resembles, this contemplative drama washes over you. Read full review
60
Time OutEric HynesJul 30, 2013
While veteran director Fernando Trueba (Belle Epoque) and writer Jean-Claude Carrière don’t bring much novelty to the May-December/muse-artist/naked-clothed cliché, they do imbue the material with genuine feeling—exploring the melancholy of waning days and a defiantly naive belief in artistic transcendence. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanAug 31, 2013
The Artist and the Model isn’t about much, other than female beauty. That theme is not exactly controversial. Chalk the tameness of the subject matter up to the period in which the film is set. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoAug 15, 2013
Although this leisurely tale of an aged French sculptor offers a few other small pleasures, in the end it lacks heft. Read full review
50
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeAug 2, 2013
Cardinale’s few brief scenes are the ones with the most depth; her facial lines really did come along with some wisdom. Read full review
50
NPRTomas HachardAug 2, 2013
The Artist and the Model suffers from the opposite affliction: It has all the trappings of a serious work of art, and it hasn't been hurried but it remains, in the end, disappointingly hollow. Read full review
50
The DissolveTasha RobinsonJul 31, 2013
It’s a modest, reserved character piece that doesn’t push an agenda. The problem is that it comes across as if it lacks opinions, rather than holding them back. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineNick McCarthyJul 30, 2013
This safe, solemn tale of an aged artist whose vitality is briefly revived by a pretty young thing is unconvincing as an articulation of the potentially spiritual nature of the artist/model relationship. Read full review
40
Time Out LondonTrevor JohnstonSep 10, 2013
Instead of developing the story’s wartime context, Trueba and veteran screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière offer passing reflections on the relationship between observation and the largely mental process of creativity, but little that ignites genuine drama. Read full review
30
The New York TimesMiriam BaleAug 1, 2013
It is a film with nothing but delight — no major revelations, no gravity and no meaning. This superficiality is a problem only because of the pretense of being about great art. Read full review
30
Village VoiceZachary WigonJul 30, 2013
Treating one's audience like ignorant children in need of lecturing is hardly a way to win fans, or display one's own artistry. Read full review
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