Hammerman Ikon

Hammerman Ikon Film Guide

High Art
1998
**
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
Cast: Radha Mitchell, Ally Sheedy, Patricia Clarkson, Tammy Grimes, Bill Sage

A young woman working for an art magazine discovers that her upstairs neighbour is a once famous photographer who disappeared from the scene. Henceforth the artist introduces her to heroin, lesbian sex and heartbreak. These people have dream jobs, they take drugs and have fabulous sex, but this pointless drama just keeps wallowing in misery.