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Director:
Alan Rudolph
Writers (WGA):
Alan Rudolph (written by) &
John Bradshaw (written by)
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Release Date:
May 1988 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | History more
Plot:
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 3 nominations more
User Comments:
Tongue-in-Cheek Send-off of Hemingway's Paris more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Keith Carradine ... Nick Hart

Linda Fiorentino ... Rachel Stone
Wallace Shawn ... Oiseau
Geneviève Bujold ... Libby Valentin (as Genevieve Bujold)
Geraldine Chaplin ... Nathalie de Ville
Kevin J. O'Connor ... Hemingway
John Lone ... Bertram Stone
Charlélie Couture ... L'Evidence (as Charlelie Couture)
Elsa Raven ... Gertrude Stein

Ali Giron ... Alice B. Toklas
Gailard Sartain ... New York Critic
Michael Wilson ... Surrealist Poet
Robert Gould ... Blackie
Antonia Dauphin ... Babette
Véronique Bellegarde ... Laurette (as Veronique Bellegarde)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
126 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | French
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby (as Dolby Stereo)
Filming Locations:
Montréal, Québec, Canada

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Oiseau: [while observing his own faked funeral] If it weren't for me, these people would think surreal was a breakfast food! more
Soundtrack:
Parlez-moi d'amour more

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Tongue-in-Cheek Send-off of Hemingway's Paris, 15 November 2000
Author: nixxnutz from Dublin, California

Sometimes the romantic subplot gets in the way of the satire, but when you see Hemingway drooling and mumbling into his scotch and hear Gertrude Stein recite one of her interminable doggerels masquerading as an unassuming philosophical gem, you know they can't be too serious. One of the greatest lines in any movie comes near the end, when Wallace Shawn says to Keith Carradine: "I ran into Maurice Ravel in the men's room. He didn't recognize me."

I love these early 20th century "period" films, and The Moderns is double the fun-no real suicides, and a hopeful, happy ending.

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