Local Color (2006) on Netflix
In 1974, teenager John Talia wants to paint, though his father disapproves. He seeks out Nicholai Seroff, a Russian impressionist who has stopped painting, and is invited to his country house.
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- Netflix2.7/5
- IMDb6.8/101,896 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes39%
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Plot summary
Port Chester, New York, 1974. John Talia is an aspiring teenage painter whose father disapproves of his art. From his friend Yammi he learns that Nicholai Seroff, a Russian painter, lives close by, and John goes to meet him. He finds a bitter alcoholic who has not painted in years and who still grieves his wife Anya. John keeps coming back, and the old man accepts him. Seroff invites him to spend the summer at his house in the Pennsylvania countryside and to learn painting there. John also meets Seroff's neighbor Carla, who mourns her son, and Curtis Sunday, an art critic and a friend of the painter. John's father is suspicious of the older man's motives but lets his son go.
Cast
- Nancy Casemoreas Mrs. Huntington-Quail
- Taso Papadakisas Metal Artist
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Local Color (2006)
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- Set in New York and Pennsylvania, Local Color was actually shot in Louisiana, in and around New Orleans, Covington and Baton Rouge. The crew stayed in two different hotels to avoid delays, and wrapped only eight days before Hurricane Katrina without interruption.
- George Gallo wrote and directed the film from his own experience at 18. The character Nicholai Seroff was based on George Cherepov, the painter Gallo apprenticed under in the 1970s.
- Gallo painted all the oil paintings in the film, cleaning out his whole garage of them. The canvases Trevor Morgan's John shows Armin Mueller-Stahl's Seroff are the exact paintings Gallo had shown George Cherepov as a teenager.
