Review: Trapped and alone, Willem Dafoe transcends art in psychological thriller ‘Inside’
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Review: Trapped and alone, Willem Dafoe transcends art in psychological thriller ‘Inside’

LA Times  

“Art is for keeps.” This turn of phrase, uttered by Willem Dafoe’s character Nemo in Vasilis Katsoupis’ narrative directorial debut, “Inside,” is a bedeviling little saying of multilayered meaning. It rattles around in your brain like a pinball, much in the way Nemo rattles around the luxury apartment where he’s trapped after an art heist gone wrong. “Art is for keeps” — it speaks to the way we place value on art, and it’s also a cheeky taunt as Nemo helps himself to million-dollar works of modern art in the penthouse apartment of a wealthy collector. It’s a luxurious prison, a gilded cage filled with priceless works of art whose value becomes null in this harrowing survivalist situation — after all, you can’t eat art.

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A film with its own art curator? ‘Inside’ a heist movie’s effort to ‘make it legit’
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A film with its own art curator? ‘Inside’ a heist movie’s effort to ‘make it legit’

LA Times  

Most films set in the art world don’t have a curator. Francesco Clemente, ‘After and Before’ On the set of “Inside.” Several pieces of art appear exclusively in “Inside.” For one of them, Bigazzi approached Italian painter Francesco Clemente about an original commission influenced by an existing work, “Christina’s World” by Andrew Wyeth. Two of Beban’s works appear in “Inside”: …

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