{"id":8478,"date":"2020-06-15T21:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-muse-movie-review\/"},"modified":"2020-06-15T21:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T18:23:00","slug":"a-muse-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-muse-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"#A Muse Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d19a9b53dc\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2d19a9b53dc\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-5' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-5'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-muse-movie-review\/#Matt_Zoller_Seitz\" >Matt Zoller Seitz<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-muse-movie-review\/#A_Muse_2020\" >A Muse (2020)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#A Muse<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/review\/primary_image\/reviews\/a-muse-2020\/muse.jpg\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\u201cA Muse,\u201d a modest epic about young artists in Europe, was made two years ago and released last week. But it feels as it it arrived via time warp from the late 20th century, the waning days of cinema as a self-contained event that you left the house to see and then talked about in a coffee shop or bar afterward. It\u2019s the sort of movie that made me want to write about and make <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> 30 years ago\u2014part of a legacy of European art cinema and English language films that were inspired by them, stretching from the 1960s through the \u201890s and into the present.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>The writer\/director\/editor, Jimmy Bontatibus, is a 24-year old American who has spent much of his young adulthood making films in Europe, where he briefly attended Bela Tarr\u2019s film school. His unusual career arc explains why this movie feels like a bridge between continents and eras even if it wasn\u2019t meant as such. Like Philip Kaufman\u2019s adaptation of \u201cThe Unbearable Lightness Being,\u201d a work it sometimes echoes, \u201cA Muse\u201d feels American and European at the same time. It\u2019s the kind of movie where gorgeous young creative Europeans talk about art and politics in relation to their lives, while also fretting about their relationships, which are bound up in the art they\u2019re trying to make.<\/p>\n<p>Jumping between timelines in a non-linear, often impressionistic way, \u201cA Muse\u201d is set in Germany (mainly Hamburg) and Romania (Bucharest and the small town of Cata) with side <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>s into 1961 Paris (via documentary footage of an artist that one of the characters is fixated on). All the narrative strands pass through the character of Adrian (Rares Andrici of \u201cGraduation\u201d), a filmmaker and artist who is as manipulative and inaccessible as he is cultured and handsome.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian is defined against, and by, two women. In 2018 Hamburg, Adrian casts a spell over Mia (Herasha Musagic of Bontatibus\u2019 debut film &#8220;Life of Flowers&#8221;), a bisexual dancer who fears she\u2019ll never live up to the standards of her famous actress mother. Adrian invites Mia to join his troupe of actor-dancer-artist types (several women and one man) who meet regularly to explore how art mirrors and informs life. They do this by creating false profiles on Tinder, bringing their dates to the same bar on the same night, then telling the troupe what h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened and what they learned about themselves. It&#8217;s almost like a reality show where the most important action isn&#8217;t filmed.\u00a0Eventually Mia and others in the group develop\u00a0misgivings about Adrian, who starts to seem more like a cult leader than a teacher or impresario. Adrian even interviews his pupils on camera after their &#8220;dates,&#8221;\u00a0in a half-searching, half-invasive way, in a room whose lighting evokes\u00a0an icy Canadian horror film where bad things happen to people\u2019s bodies.<\/p>\n<p>This material is intercut with the 2015 Romanian timeline, which observes Adrian in a relationship with another filmmaker, Bianca (Miriam Rizea of John Boorman\u2019s \u201cQueen and Country\u201d). Bianca is directing a documentary that invites citizens to imagine the the future of their country, with Adrian serving as cameraman and collaborator. This timeline\u2019s Adrian can be mysterious and difficult, but he doesn\u2019t have the Heathcliff-on-the-moors vibe of the Adrian that Mia meets three years after. Much of the 2015 timeline follows Bianca as she tries to understand why Adrian is reluctant to have sex with her and keeps disappearing for hours at a time. The answer turns out to be just what you\u2019d expect. But this part of \u201cA Muse\u201d is less a portrait of a young man in denial about his sexuality than an examination of how artists use art to hide from themselves, stop others from seeing who they really are, and inflict their pain on the world.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>And it\u2019s here that we need to detour into the work of French painter, performance artist, judo expert, and Nouveaux R\u00e9alistes figurehead <span>Yves Klein<\/span>, the main focus of the third timeline, 1961 Paris. Klein (seen in documentary footage) sought to \u201cliberate color from the prison of the line.\u201d He was most famous (or notorious) for a performance art piece wherein women slathered their naked bodies in paint and smeared a canvas with it while people in formal wear looked on. The Adrian we observe in 2018 has styled himself on Klein; remove the only other man from his group and he\u2019d have a platonic harem of women, like Klein\u2019s paint-smearers. As the story moves through time, we see how his obsession took root.<\/p>\n<p>Klein is also responsible for a unique shade of paint, the \u201cbluer than blue\u201d IKB, or International Klein Blue. Blue and Klein\u2019s other favorite color, gold, is integrated into the production design of \u201cA Muse.\u201d A scene midway through the film discusses the symbolism and emotional impact of blue while a couple lies on a bed, their bodies bathed by blue light from a projector. Another scene near the end, which I won\u2019t describe here because it\u2019s such a charmingly grand final gesture, puts that bit of color theory into practice.<\/p>\n<p>As you\u2019ve no doubt gathered, this is a lot to take in. Bontatibus doesn\u2019t make it easy. Cross-cutting like Edward Scissorhands sculpting a hedge, shifting forward and backward in time within the space of moments, and blending documentary and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> footage into a fictional narrative, he\u2019s made a little movie that carries itself like a gigantic international European-American co-production, directed by a known quantity who\u2019s made ten features rather than two. There are points when \u201cA Muse\u201d disappears into its own navel and you can barely figure out what\u2019s going on, much less what it\u2019s trying to say. The editing during the first half often sometimes seems to be cutting all the time because it can\u2014or because that\u2019s what some contemporary large-scale art cinema auteurs (including Christopher Nolan and Terrence Malick) like to do. Christopher Day&#8217;s spare but emotionally resonant score helps smooth out and unify\u00a0sequences that might otherwise play as disjointed, and the cinematography, by Adrian Iurchevici and Roxana Reiss, infuses every interaction with a sort of enchanted documentary feeling, which prevents the most highfalutin conversations from falling into an abyss of self-importance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<p>In the second half, \u201cA Muse\u201d settles into a more patient, hypnotic groove, letting moments play out at greater length, and cutting to intensify meaning. But the entire thing is of a piece, the first half planting seeds that will bloom in the second; whatever issues one may have with how information is communicated, you can\u2019t say that it wasn\u2019t provided. The ending, in particular, wouldn\u2019t have nearly as much impact if the film hadn\u2019t insisted on delivering crucial bits of information in its own idiosyncratic language and at its own speed, and while I\u2019m sure its poker-faced sincerity would be laughed off the screen by cynics, I doubt cynics are the director\u2019s target audience.\u00a0This is the kind of movie that seems at risk of\u00a0spinning out of control at any\u00a0moment. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But as problems go, isn&#8217;t that one that every movie ought to\u00a0have? If you never get up\u00a0on the tightrope, you&#8217;ll never fall.\u00a0What\u2019s important here isn\u2019t mastery of theme or subject, but mastery of voice. \u201cA Muse\u201d is aces in the second department, and considering how much it\u2019s trying to do and say\u2014dealing in ideas that run adjacent to each other more often than they overlap\u2014it\u2019s a triumph. Devotees of art house cinema\u2019s greatest hits will recognize key influences, including Patrice Chereau, Cristian Mungiu, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and early works by Jean-Luc Godard (strong Anna Karina vibes from Husagic), Paul Thomas Anderson, and Steven Soderbergh (Adrian could be a next-generation version of James Spader\u2019s filmmaker-manipulator character in \u201csex, lies, and videotape\u201d). But the end result strikes notes that are unique, and they seem to have been arrived at through intuition and trial-and-error rather than by sticking to a film reference playbook. What this filmmaker still has to learn can be picked up through experience. What he knows can\u2019t be taught.<\/p>\n<p>The three leads are superb. Husagic and and Rizea create fully lived-in characters who seem like the sorts of striving young artists that you could meet in any major city in the world, while Andrici succeeds at making a furtive, damaged person endearing enough that we understand why others would find him attractive even when they know he\u2019s using them. Late in the film, there\u2019s an exchange of close-ups of Husagic and Andrici on a Hamburg street at night that\u2019s a magical evocation of what it feels like to fall in love. I fell in love with the earnestness, hunger, and vulnerability of these characters, who are intoxicated by what art can do. The title applies to all of them.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A Muse&#8221; is on Vimeo now.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Matt Zoller Seitz\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/user\/primary_image\/matt-zoller-seitz\/featured_MZS_portraits-10.jpg\" title=\"Matt Zoller Seitz\"><\/img><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figcaption>\n<h5><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Matt_Zoller_Seitz\"><\/span>Matt Zoller Seitz<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>Matt Zoller Seitz is the Editor at Large\u00a0of RogerEbert.com, TV critic for New York Magazine and Vulture.com, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section> <\/section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A Muse movie poster\" itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/movie\/movie_poster\/a-muse-2020\/large_muse.jpg\" title=\"A Muse movie poster\"><\/img><\/p>\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"A_Muse_2020\"><\/span> A Muse (2020) <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\n<p> 100 minutes <meta content=\"PT100M\" itemprop=\"duration\"><\/meta><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>\n<section>\n<div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/features\/real-treasure-the-reunion-at-the-heart-of-da-5-bloods\/thumb_da-5-bloods-piece.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> about 6 hours ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/chazs-blog\/upholding-black-voices-an-annotated-table-of-contents\/thumb_4F4FACF6-C8CF-4501-B35D-C0550A1435AB.JPG\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 3 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/streaming\/lazy-crossing-swords-cant-hit-its-targets\/thumb_crossing_swords_s01_e09_primary_asset_02032020_v2-00_03_55_04-still003-1.jpg\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 3 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<article target=\"_blank\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.rogerebert.com\/uploads\/blog_post\/primary_image\/interviews\/paving-the-way-shola-lynch-on-chisholm-72-unbought-and-unbossed\/thumb_Shola_Lynch_Interview.JPG\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p> 4 days ago <\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rogerebert.com\/reviews\/a-muse-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Social Media category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to watch Movies or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#A Muse&#8221; \u201cA Muse,\u201d a modest epic about young artists in Europe, was made two years ago and released last week. 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