This film is about London's contemporary art world where people have a hustle & bustle life. Art Spindle opens a high-end gallery. His assistants, Beth,has an underground affair with Gallery's client, Bob Macclestone. Beth asks Bob to invest his budget in her own gallery.
I don't begrudge Boogie Woogie's attacks on the art scene for its pretension, greed, and self-aggrandizement run rampant; I begrudge the fact that the film is guilty of these very same things.
[The film's characters] are so repellent that almost everyone outside the movie's fetid hothouse will want to flee to fresher air.
Eye for Film
May 16, 2010
Less the free-form, jazzy ensemble satire on the art world it aspires to be than an over-elaborate and under-funny undertaking by high quality actors who should know better.
Devilishly cynical eavesdropper art snob fare peering into the pretentious when not cruel machinations transpiring in the world of creative merchandise commerce.
The cast of superficial backstabbers, casual philanderers, and gibberish-spouting phonies has no original characters, but at least a few of the actors attack their roles with a zest that offsets their two-dimensionality.
A tepid spoof that only occasionally evokes a reluctant smile.
BrianOrndorf.com
April 28, 2010
More of a paper cut, but one that's sufficiently nasty in a minor key, landing a few body blows where it matters the most, while successfully detailing the betrayal and schmoozing it takes to get to the top.
