Paint

About Paint

Paint is a 2020 American comedy film written and directed by Michael Walker and starring Josh Caras, Olivia Luccardi, Paul Cooper, Comfort Clinton, François Arnaud, Daniel Bellomy, Kaliswa Brewster, Vince Nappo, Amy Hargreaves, Austin Pendleton and David Patrick Kelly.

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Cast

Josh Caras as Dan Pierson

Olivia Luccardi as Kelsey Frick

Paul Cooper as Quinn Donahue

François Arnaud as Connor Fontaine

Comfort Clinton as Stephanie Buckland

Vince Nappo as Brett Wysinski

Amy Hargreaves as Leslie Pierson

David Patrick Kelly as David Crays

Austin Pendleton as Professor Winston

Wakeema Hollis as Christina

Daniel Bellomy as Austin Gamby

Kaliswa Brewster as Claire Babchak

Kate Stone as Chloe Brown

Release

In September 2020, it was announced the American distribution rights to the film were acquired by Gravitas Ventures. The film premiered at the 2020 Dances with Films Festival and was released on VOD on December 15, 2020.

Reception

The film has a 92% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on twelve reviews.

Alex Saveliev of Film Threat rated the film a 7 out of 10.

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Notable quotes

“In general, just as painters in working from models constantly gaze at their exemplar and thus strive to transfer the expression of the original to their own artistry, so too he who is anxious to make himself perfect in all the kinds of virtue must gaze upon the lives of the saints as upon statues, so to speak, that move and act, and must make their excellence his own by imitation.”
— Basil of Caesarea vol. 1, p. 17, Letters as translated by R. Deferrari (1926)
“If anyone shall endeavor to represent the forms of the Saints in lifeless pictures with material colors which are of no value (for this notion is vain and introduced by the devil), and does not rather represent their virtues as living images in himself, let him be anathema!”
— Iconoclastic Conciliabulum, 754 AD
“Delphinum sylvis appingit, fluctibus aprum.”
— He paints a dolphin in the woods, a boar in the waves.
“Painting responded to the plague-darkened vision of the human condition provoked by repeated exposure to sudden, inexplicable death. Tuscan painters reacted against Giotto's serenity, preferring sterner, hieratic portrayals of religious scenes and figures. The "Dance of Death" became a common theme for art; and several other macabre motifs entered the European repertory.”
— William Hardy McNeill, Plagues and Peoples, Ch.4 (1976).
“Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing.”
— John Ruskin, True and Beautiful, Painting, Introduction. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
“They dropped into the yolk of an egg the milk that flows from the leaf of a young fig-tree, with which, instead of water, gum or gumdragant, they mixed their last layer of colours.”
— Horace Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting, Vol. I, Chapter II. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.

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