Art History

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Tension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film. As the actress and her co-star develop real feelings for each other, the director's ... Read allTension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film. As the actress and her co-star develop real feelings for each other, the director's jealousy erupts, sabotaging his own production.Tension mounts between a director and his lead actress on the set of a sexually explicit low-budget film. As the actress and her co-star develop real feelings for each other, the director's jealousy erupts, sabotaging his own production.

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4.7/10

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Joe Swanberg

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Josephine Decker

Juliette…

Kent Osborne

Eric…

Kit Giordano

Sarah

Kris Rey

Hillary
(as Kris Swanberg)

Adam Wingard

Bill

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- Joe Swanberg
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After the shoot, in July 2010, Josephine Decker sent Joe Swanberg an email, enthusing over their work together while also saying she felt uncomfortable with that opening scene. "I'm still brewing over the beginning close-up of my hand putting the condom on and then rubbing Kent's penis," she wrote, referring to her co-star Kent Osborne. "I wanted to say something," she continued in the email, "but I didn't want to interrupt the creative flow with fears or worries and put up restrictions. I really wanted all of our energy to just flow. And I kept being like, 'Just get over it, it's not a big deal.'" Decker focused on her aesthetic concerns: "That kind of image just says porn to me," she wrote.

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2/10

Enough to put you off sex entirely.

"Art History" isn't about art history. It's a kind of 'home-movie-porn-movie' movie in which the director Joe Swanberg plays the director of a porn movie with feelings for, (in lust with?), his leading actress played by the actress/director Josephine Decker of "Madeline's Madeline" fame. The problem is her leading man, Kent Osborne, is also in lust with her and since all three wrote the screenplay it feels very voyeuristic indeed. It's also like nothing one would want to pay money to see, a narcissistic project about narcissistic people. It's well enough made for what it is but it's not in the least bit erotic despite the copious nudity. In fact, it's enough to put you off sex entirely or, as the old gag has it, 'I'd rather have a cup of tea'.