'Paint' (2023) Movie Review: A Strange Comedy about a Strange Guy

Paint is a film written and directed by Brit McAdams starring Owen Wilson.

It is a comedy that boasts the flag of quirkiness, and, in its 60s hippy vibes, it is attractive… for a while.

One of those comedies that, unfortunately, runs out of fuel in its initial approach without having a clear idea to develop.

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There’s some charm to it as a nostalgic product and as a chance to recall for a while the times in which Forrest Gump found love… to the rhythm of Dolly Parton. It has some style regarding the recreation more than in the interpretation or the story, which don’t want to be memorable at any time.

This film has the dubious merit of being told as it renders the life of this painter, something that ends apparently without leaving any trace, transitioning between light comedy and an acid sense hidden under an apparent veil of innocence. It’s not harsh in its criticism, but it does underlie boring jokes coming from a not-so-funny character.

Regarding sense of humor, there’s something for every taste, because as in haute (or low) cuisine, each one likes certain flavors.

Paint has an entire initial aesthetic proposal, which gradually fades and which, in the absence of a more solid development, ends up being consciously lost.

If in the end life is a flow of nonsense and coincidences in a landscape painted in a “crappy” television program… you will decide for yourselves.

Owen Wilson is in his role, doing his job, in an interpretative formula that, based on repetition, he has ended up mastering.