Sep 4, 2009 | The Courier-Journal
In 'Local Color,' paint and schmaltz flow
Ten-word review: Young apprentice plus crotchety older painter equals artistic awakening, bliss.
'Local Color' actually a bit murky as film
Based on the personal experiences of writer-director George Gallo , "Local Color" follows impatient young-artist-with-potential John Talia as he pursues his local hero, Russian hermit artist Nicoli Seroff .
How is it that a film about the love of art can make art seem so detestable? Years before scripting Midnight Run and The Whole Ten Yards , writer-turned-director George Gallo was first an impressionist landscape painter, and his life-changing experiences from the summer of 1974 apparently resembled Ralph Macchio's leg-sweeping coming of age in The ...
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