Wordiezett So much average

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Plustown A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Roedy Green The most important thing to know about this movie is it is unusually boring. I kept waiting for it to end. The curtain came down, the music soared, then it took off again, over and over and over, like some spoof of a Beethoven symphony endlessly ending.It mocks art and art critics with straw men situations, that might have been concocted by Archie Bunker. For example, Ron Perlman plays an obnoxious screaming queen art critic who mistakes the paintings of retarded children for high art. An artist displays an empty frame and slings BS about the deep inner meaning of its flatness.The plot: A young man with a rabidly homophobic father invades the home of a reclusive alcoholic artist demanding to be taught to paint. The artist lets him in, but just leaves him to paint. They snipe at each other, for what feels like weeks even though the movie fits on one DVD.The dialogue is nausea-inducing e.g. "clouds are where angels hide", "follow your dream".

Bento de Espinosa If you like patriotic movies, in which it is said that you must be thankful for living in the USA, because the rest of the world is really awful, if you like stereotypes, if you think that the Germans are always the bad guys and Russians have vodka for breakfast, if you think that contemporary art is crap and only realistic painting is real art and if you like artificial dialogs that are never spoken in real life, then this film is for you.And I am saying all this even though I normally actually like movies that people classify as "art movies", like many European films use to be!My humble opinion: Boring.

Jay Harris This very beautiful & excellently acted movie,has suffered the same fate of similar type films. If a movie has no big name actors, nor is it an action ,adventure movie,it is hardly released on cine-plex screens.LOCAL COLOR was made in 2005,it ad a one screen run in 2007, & in August 2009 had a 2 screen run,thusly it generated a miserly $ 50,000 gross, Total cost was about $ 3.25 million.This is a very leisurely BUT not slow film was written & directed by George Gallo & is a semi-fictionalized version of one summer in his own life when he was a late teen. He had dreams of being a landscape painter & much of the film is done in beautiful landscapes. The director puts his own vision into each scene & the result is very beautiful.What really makes the movie stand-out is the superb acting & settings.The young lad is played by Trevor Morgan, an up and coming actor. Armin Mueller-Stahl is the older painter who mentors our lad, He of course commands every one of his scenes,he is one of those actors known for this. The scenes between the two of them have have a quiet intensity,that is excellent.In worthy support are some of the better actors available. Samantha Mathis, Ray Liotta, Diana Scawid, Ron Perlmann & Charles Durning, They all are excellent.This film is now on DVD & for those who like adult dramas about human relationships I highly recommend it.The film has an R rating due to certain words our main character uses.It does come over OK though as it fits his character to a T.Ratings: ***1/2 (out of 4) 95 points (out of 100) 9 (out of 10)

accessisyours A must see film for people who love good true stories about following ones passions, Too bad that big studios are only about big $ and think that the public does not want to see good movies that don't have the shoot um up, kill, action. I believe people do want to watch movies that inspire people to follow their dreams. As a film maker myself I thank George and his Wife for not giving up. If you are lucky enough to have this film come to your town go see it and tell your friends to see it. Note The big studios said that no one wanted to see My Big Fat Greek Wedding, who was wrong about that. Not the public.Hang in there George.