In order to achieve her dream of assessing a respectful place in the art, Ellie Shine, a single artist who has been lived into a New York City, where she has a successful friendships, loyal dog, Bing, and a stable teaching job, she turns her ban into a new work place as she creates a suitable atmosphere to watch classic movies.
Short, sour-sweet and content to leave ideas and characters trailing in the summer breeze, "My Art" has evidently been made strictly on Simmons' terms, however wafty those may be.
It's fairly watchable, especially since Simmons' character Ellie has no time for single older woman clichés and is likably easygoing about everything but her unwell dog and questionable work.
The film is pleasant without being ebullient, sad without being devastating, cruising along on life's rhythms sans thematic or aesthetic grandstanding.
It's a quiet, eccentric comedy-drama about artistic inspiration that won't knock your socks off, but it has its own awkward charms about how artists forge their identity while wrestling with professional boundaries.
