Like Lucy’s photography, Lisa Cholodenko’s film is intensely focused and intimate, capturing the complex, inner landscapes of its two central characters.

Ally Sheedy plays Lucy with a sexy grime.

As well as its procession of downtown drug soirées, High Art offers one of the more sensitive on-screen depictions of lesbian sex in (relatively) mainstream cinema.

Cholodenko nails the faded milieu of queer artists, lovers, and hangers-on intersecting through sex, drugs, and art.