The Moderns

Amazon Verified Purchase ( What's this? ) Between 15-18 years ago, filmmaker Alan Rudolph, a protege of Robert Altman's, came out with a trio of really excellent films that captured the feeling of the times and places they were set in beautifully. The first was "Choose Me", a story about singles in the tail end of the disco era and the effect casual sex has on its characters; "Trouble In Mind", to this day, the ONLY film that attempts to capture the bizarre zeitgeist of the early eighties and the late seventies, a time that every person over 30 has lived through cognitively, but no other... more

I would give this movie five stars for myself, but objectively I recomend it at four. The other reviews do a good job of summing up. I just wanted to add that if your a fan of little touches and subtle humour, this is one of the greats. Hemmingway played more as the kind the drunken writer you might actually meet in real life, constantly giving out philosophy and observations in an un-solicited manner, obsessed with fair play (see the boxing match). Two American tourists in the cafe getting their literary facts wrong in the begining of the movie. An oil painting bobbing up and down as the... more

A good, solid movie. I was drawn to this film by Alan Rudolph the director and Keith Carradine the lead actor, then when I saw the other members of the cast I knew the film HAD to be good. It is set in the art and literature world of 1926 Paris, and has overtones of John Huston's "Moulin Rouge" in its occasional biographical sketches. The characters are living in 1926, and the movie does such a good job of transporting the viewer to The Jazz Age Paris, that no one seems stale. Keith Carradine once again does a great job of being a disillusioned, cynical man with still a heart of human... more