Movie #872 "Cutie & the Boxer" is nominated for an academy award for best documentary 2014 --- I'm thinking it isn't going to win it -------why? lots of reasons. One, the film is so slow, full of scenes with mindless dialogue --- did you pay the bills? do you want milk in your coffee? stuff like that, because it follows small scenes in the life of a married couple who try to do art, with the husband overshadowing his wife most of the time. The second reason is it is way too quirky for most people to like it, is my guess. We are never really convinced these people have talent --- for example, he makes these sculptures that when finished won't fit through doorways to get in to the place of installation. duh! The artist Boxer does whole wall paintings while wearing boxing gloves and placing them in paint and then throwing punches to canvas ---- a curator from the Guggenheim, in looking at his work, asks how long it takes to do the project and he says, "about a minute and a half." No kidding. Didn't like this one much ------but I suppose if you are interested in what art is, you might find this amusing. Cutie is a quirky soul, too. She draws cartoon characters of herself and her husband, and she is always naked in the pictures, she says because she is poor. The one thing I liked about this documentary is when the film shows these pictures, they are animated and it is a cute way to show you how "cutie" feels about her art, his art, and the painter himself.
Cutie and the Boxer2013R81 minutes I gave it 2 stars out of 5
A 2014 Oscar nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this film explores the work and marriage of Ushio and Noriko Shinohara, who took America's art scene by storm after leaving Japan for New York.
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