Synopsis
In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
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Cast
- Ed HarrisJackson Pollock
- Marcia Gay HardenLee Krasner
- Tom BowerDan Miller
- Jennifer ConnellyRuth Kligman
- Bud CortHoward Putzel
- John HeardTony Smith
- Val KilmerWillem DeKooning
- David LearyCharles Pollock
- Robert KnottSande Pollock
- Stephanie SeymourHelen Frankenthaler
Recommandations
- 100
Chicago Sun-Times
Pollock is confident, insightful work--one of the year's best films. - 91
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Harris genuinely seems to be at one with the character, and his movie is eerily alive. - 90
Time
The result is a harrowing film, impossible to "like" in any conventional way, hypnotically impossible to turn away from. - 88
Boston Globe
Like its subject, Pollock is a messy creation, but one whose depth of commitment and high attack keeps it on track. - 80
Salon
As good as Harris is, though, it's Harden's performance that sticks with you long after you've seen the movie. She understands what Krasner must have known intuitively. Greatness comes not from cleaning up messes, but from allowing them to be made in the first place. - 80
Village Voice
The movie's best moments evoke the thrill of doing something new. Pollock convincingly retails the beauty and originality of the painter's best work -- it may not be an intellectual adventure, but it does represent one. - 80
Rolling Stone
Ed Harris, who plays Pollock and makes his debut as a director - doing both jobs superbly, by the way - is angst incarnate. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
For all the praise that has been heaped upon it, is a quasisatisfying, half realized vision.
