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Art School Confidential (2006)
Recently I was alone at home completely pissed off after watching a Indian Movie RGV Aag. I turned of the TV and threw the remote away from my sight no more Indian movie for the day. Well walking down the lane I entered one of the video rent store and went to the latest section and found this movie Art School Confidential . I thought it would be a sex comedy or a high school movie but i was wrong man the movie was completely different i mean literally the movie rocked.For the first 3/4 or so of the film, that’s what I got, and I enjoyed every second. Towards the last bit, the film takes a turn darker than you would expect. This sudden twist, unexpected as it was, did not feel trite or convoluted. More fascinating.

Make no mistake this a dark comedy in the truest definition. There is something about the ending that is supremely haunting.
Ethan Suplee provides the hyper-actively aggressive role he has become beloved for. Malkovich does not disappoint as the burnt-out and oh-so-full-of-crap art professor. Jim Broadbent channels Chuck Bukowski here as he barks like a pit-bull and alternately purrs like a tabby as the disheveled failed artist/ nihilistic mentor of our boy Jerome, who just may be the only unpretentious and truly talented student at Strathmore University. Throw in Anjelica Huston and Steve Buscemi in delightfully understated roles, a string of murders courtesy of the mythical Strathmore Strangler, and the positively stunning Sophia Myles as the nude drawing class model Audrey who becomes both the object of Jerome’s affection and the source of his disillusion, and you have got a dysfunctional masterpiece.
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