Tasteful Nudes
2020 · 10m · USA
Directed by Emma Rogers, Sofia Dobrushin
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A flailing artist mounts a gallery show of nudes of her male muse, praying a Times critic shows. The opening implodes as her peers cheerfully accuse her of being a hack.
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An art-world satire that flips the gaze and then watches the artist eat it at her own opening. Self-deprecation as weapon — finally.
Skewering the female-gaze grift is overdue, and Christopher Guest gallery opening crossed with Frances Ha social mortification is exactly the right tonal register. Sharp.
A mockumentary skewering of the female-gaze grift, with the gallery show imploding as peers cheerfully accuse her of being a hack — that's a richly specific target and the Christopher Guest gallery-opening DNA is the right engine. Sharp casting.
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Playful satire combining mockumentary and performance art.