<em>Velvet Buzzsaw</em> Is Pure, Absurd, Soulless Fun<em> </em>
The director of <em>Nightcrawler </em>reunites with Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo for a gleefully gory parody of the fine-art world.
The mysterious painter at the center of is a parodic fantasy of a tortured creator. His works are vivid, frightening depictions of violence and tragedy; after the artist dies, his pieces are found stacked by the hundreds in his dank apartment, a treasure trove of torment for critics to puzzle over. The paint that the old man used is so thick, it seems to rise off the canvas, and his syphilitic-sounding sobriquet is Ventril Dease. “His
