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The Art of the Critic

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Comic Satire on modern conceptual art and its critics. A drunken art critic sabotages the launch of a new art movement by discouraging a major curator from buying a set of modern art installations. Incensed by his interference, the ‘New Brutalist Artists’ turn him into a piece of saleable art. But even this act of artistic terrorism fails to silence the Philistine.
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here is the trailor to La Crème de la Crème which is playing on babelgum.com
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