comedy crime–drama

The Object of Beauty is a 1991 comedy crime–drama film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and starring John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell.

drama film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and starring John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell

The Object of Beauty is a 1991 comedy crime–drama film directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg and starring John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell.

mystery/love story

An Object of Beauty is a combination mystery/love story which takes place in the New York art world in the years just before and after 911.

The objects — residing at the center of inquiry — the visual arts, the verbal arts, great philosophic treatises

The objects residing at the center of inquiry — the visual arts, the verbal arts, great philosophic treatises — are objects of beauty.

in a certain way

The idea of beauty is portrayed in a certain way.

small-sized things that charm

This aesthetic category is the opposite of the Sublime and is related to small-sized things that charm, like a beautiful pebble or a piece of fine art, e.g. a beautiful ring.

portraiture

Themes include beauty, gender, sexuality, innocence, the body and, perhaps most importantly, portraiture.