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Title: 2 1/2 stars for an art snob satire
Review: Sometimes even if you don't get what a filmmaker is trying to do, you like the result. And then sometimes you do get it, but don't like it. This film has half a dozen totally unlikeable characters, all narcissistic artists - is that redundant? The beautiful but way quirky gallery owner has one brother (Eion Bailey) whose art is very commercial but it keeps her financially flush. She doesn't like him or his art all that much, instead she likes the bizzarro artists of modern style. You know the type. Stick a cigarette on the wall, give it a name and call it art. Well the gallerist (Marley Shelton), does like the brother of her bread winner (Adam Goldberg) who's as nutso about his music as the guy sticking the ciggy on the wall is about art. I understand how this is a satire about art snobs, but I found the whole thing rather tedious if not odious.
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