Pollock (**3/4)

Like or hate the famous “drip paintings” of the artist Jackson Pollack, there’s no denying that he was a unique artist with a distinct sensibility. But, despite fine performances by Ed Harris as Pollack, and Marcia Gay Harden as his wife, fellow abstract painter Lee Krasner, the movie makes the art less interesting, not more. Concentrating on the post-war years the couple spent on Long Island, Harris (who also directed) paints his character a rather ordinarily self-important, not atypical alcoholic, and Krasner as an all-too-typical spouse who chose to stay with the talented but difficult man.


 viewed 3/22/01 6;15 pm at GCC Plymouth Meeting and posted 7/26/14

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