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Boogie Woogie (2009)

Boogie Woogie poster
Directed by
Duncan Ward
Genre
drama film, comedy film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
5.1 of 10 from 108 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

People in the London art world scheme, lie, and sleep with each other to get ahead. The movie follows a group of art dealers, collectors, and artists as they manipulate deals and relationships around a valuable painting.

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What happens

Boogie Woogie is a 2009 British black comedy film directed by Duncan Ward and produced by Eric Eisner and Leonid Rozhetskin. It is based on the 2000 novel of the same name by Danny Moynihan, who adapted his own book on the New York art world of the 1990s and titled it based on the unfinished 1944 Piet Mondrian painting Victory Boogie-Woogie. The film stars Gillian Anderson, Alan Cumming, Heather Graham, Danny Huston, Christopher Lee, Joanna Lumley, Charlotte Rampling, Amanda Seyfried, Stellan Skarsgård and Jaime Winstone. It premiered on 26 June 2009 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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