A fan of the time period and its characters will be disappointed in this story. At moments, the movie trues to capture Paris in 1926 but falls shorts with endless empty performances, motivations, acting, narrative and background. Carradine is flat beyond measure as he portrays an unlikeable, dull, dead on arrival character. Yes, this is the lost generation, but the protagonist is neither here or there. Wallace Shawn and Kevin O'Connor bring a much needed departure from this failure of a story but it is still not enough to make sense of this movie. Linda Fiorentino's rawness is breathtaking and worth sitting through2 hours of emptiness. A great potential of a film, that falls short to being above water as the movie continues to sink as you watch.
Review of The Moderns
