The Moderns

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The Moderns
Directed by Alan Rudolph
Produced by David Blocker
Shep Gordon
Carolyn Pfeiffer
Written by John Bradshaw
Alan Rudolph
Starring Keith Carradine
Linda Fiorentino
John Lone
Wallace Shawn
Geneviève Bujold
Geraldine Chaplin
Kevin J. O'Connor
Music by Mark Isham
CharlElie Couture
Cinematography Toyomichi Kurita
Distributed by Alive Films
Running time 126 min.
Language English
IMDb profile

The Moderns is a 1988 film by Alan Rudolph, which takes place in 1926 Paris during the period of the Lost Generation and at the height of modernist literature.

Roger Ebert, in his review of the film states that "The Moderns" is:

"sort of a source study for the Paris of Ernest Hemingway in the 1920s; it's a movie about the raw material he shaped into "The Sun Also Rises" and "A Moveable Feast", and it also includes raw material for books by Gertrude Stein, Malcolm Cowley and Clifford Irving" [1].


Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Nick Hart (Keith Carradine) is an expatriate American artist living in Paris among some of the great artists and writers of the time, including Ernest Hemingway (Kevin J. O'Connor), and Gertrude Stein (Elsa Raven) (with Alice B. Toklas portrayed by Ali Giron).

He is torn between his estranged wife Rachel, (Linda Fiorentino) and Nathalie de Ville (Geraldine Chaplin) who hires him to forge her paintings. He must also contend with Rachel's current husband, Bertram Stone (John Lone).


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