Martine Syms's first feature film is a hazy, alluring send-up of the art world
The film depicts an MFA fine-arts student, Palace , on the day of her graduation. The film opens with Palace undergoing her final exam, an interrogation by her painfully woke professors. Although she is undecided about attending the graduation party, Palace eventually goes after pressure from her friends , and we watch the night hilariously unfold.Stingily is also an artist and a close friend of Syms’s, dating back to Syms’s own days as a student.
Taking inspiration from ’90s-era coming-of-age films, the stock characters have been updated to the art-school clichés of today, in an environment where, ironically, everyone strives for originality. That’s right—soft boi is definitely a social category now. It’s a film about those unspoken visual signifiers, which can be the gateways to social mobility in this environment. Does your coat have the? You’re in.
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