the horror comedy, splattersatir, konstskräckis? It is not easy to categorize the ”Velvet buzzsaw”, Netflix’s new original production.
But Dan Gilroys genre defying film starts out well, in the vip crowd at the Art Basel Miami Beach, among the flowing champagne, the cheek kissing and toxic competition.
Jake Gyllenhaal in the lead role as art critic Morph Vandewalt behave like a king and the icy gallery owner Rhodora (Rene Russo) as a queen. But so is tripping her assistant Josephina over a patrimony – from hell. And a brilliant satire released in horror film, but with the ludicrous stencils on everything from selfish means portrait to the robots that lurk fisförnäma cognoscente.
I think in my own mind that reality often surpasses fiction. Recently sentenced the legendary, stentuffa art dealer Mary Boone to 2.5 years in prison for tax evasion. The defense claimed that greed was not the reason, but abuses and ”abject poverty”, childhood traumas…