The Moderns

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The Moderns
Theatrical release poster
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.
Country	United States
Language	English
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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]

[edit] Plot summary

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), Gertrude Stein (Elsa Raven), and Alice B. Toklas (Ali Giron).

Nick 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).