An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty (2013)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 14
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 3
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Average Rating: 7.3/10
Critic Reviews: 7
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 0
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Executive producers Jay-Z, Dream Hampton, and Wyatt Cenac present Terence Nance's explosively creative debut feature, AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY. With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful sense of humor, the film documents the relationship between Terence (Nance) and a lovely young woman (Namik Minter) as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic. Utilizing a tapestry of live action and multiple styles of animation, the film blurs the line between narrative,
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All Critics (14) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (11) | Rotten (3)
What saves the film-and grandly-is Nance's wildly ambitious visual imagination.
Top CriticA dense, organic, dazzling and funny tapestry, making use of varied and subtly colored animation and stop-motion; candid video; playfully verbose direct address; chapters and footnotes and doodles; and suavely chosen music and sonic bridges.
This musical, elliptical, personal, poetical, sensual indie produced by Jay-Z has a seductive DIY feel and a lineage that's part early Spike Lee and late Charles Bukowski.
Overambitiousness can turn a valentine into hot air and white noise, but it can also serve as a calling card for an artist finding his pitch-and Nance is indeed an artist, pure and simple.
This brisk and self-searching, sharply intelligent and deeply vulnerable romantic comedy is a masterwork of reflexive construction.
Experimental debut is an engaging essay film about (probably) unrequited love.
Chock-a-block with creativity and cleverness, but ultimately too much of muchness.
Ghetto psychobabble strictly for the attention-deficit, Jay-Z demographic.
Incredibly heartfelt and sincere and urgent... It is the film that it is because it is sloppy and rough.
On the one hand, its multiple postmodernist levels and medium shifts make it one of the most original movies of the year. On the other, its relative lack of substance...is frustrating and causes the film to run out of juice about halfway through.
An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is a serious but never somber offering from a member of the Brooklyn boheme 2.0 generation.
I doubt I'll see a more visually inventive film at this fest-or this year, that matter-but I do wish that Oversimplification were easier to connect to.
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