The Moderns
Paris, 1926... there was nothing more modern.
1988 en 126 minutes
Rating: 5.8
Plot
Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He becomes involved in a plot by wealthy art patroness Nathalie de Ville to forge three paintings. This leads to several run-ins with American rubber magnate Bertram Stone, who happens to be married to Hart's ex-wife Rachel.
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Cast
Keith Carradine
Nick Hart
Linda Fiorentino
Rachel Stone
Wallace Shawn
Oiseau
Geneviève Bujold
Libby Valentin
Geraldine Chaplin
Nathalie de Ville
Kevin J. O'Connor
Hemingway
John Lone
Bertram Stone
Charlélie Couture
L'Evidence
Elsa Raven
Gertrude Stein
Ali Giron
Alice B. Toklas
Gailard Sartain
New York Critic
Michael Wilson
Surrealist Poet
Robert Gould
Blackie
Antonia Dauphin
Babette
Véronique Bellegarde
Laurette
Isabel Serra
Armand
David Stein
Art Critic
Hubert Loiselle
Art Critic
Meegan Lee Ochs
Francis
Brooke Smith
Abigail
Marthe Turgeon
Rose Selavy
Pierre Chagnon
Stone's Bodyguard #1
Éric Gaudry
Stone's Bodyguard #2
Timothy Webber
Stone's Business Associate
Mance Edmond
Coco
Normand Brathwaite
Butler Laloux
Michael Rudder
Buffy: Group Montparno
Paul Buissonneau
Alexandre: Group Montparno
Lenie Scoffié
Femme de Lettres: Group Montparno
Reynald Bouchard
Chapelle: Group Montparno
Flora Balzano
Pia Delarue: Group Montparno
Beverly Murray
Eve: Group Montparno
Renee Lee
Chanteuse: Group Montparno
Charles Biddle Sr.
Charlie the Bass Player
Glenn Bradley
Saxophonist
Didier Hoffmann
Priest
Jean-Jacques Desjardins
Hart's Concierge
Ada Fuoco
Self
Harry Hill
Mr. Brown
Marcel Girard
Nathalie's Chauffeur
Danielle Schneider
Fille de Nuit
Stephanie Biddle
Fille de Nuit
Louis Pharand
Referee
Daniel Bloch
M. Raymond
Julien Carletti
Cafe Moderne Waiter
