ARTIST UNKNOWN Review: Art Imitates Life With A Kick To The Face In Cinder Chou’s Feature Debut
Close to four years after getting briskly acquainted with the screen prowess of actress Kerry Lacy in 2017 short, Viola, I remained watchful of her movements in hopes that I would hear more about the short film saga and her other endeavors. Gradually this led me to discover her new partnership with Taiwanese-American director Cinder Chou at the time as filming went underway for the independent queer action romantic comedy-drama, Artist Unknown which now finds Lacy in her debut lead role from a script by Chou. It’s not long from the start of the movie before we get to see a little of what Lacy’s got in her arsenal in the role of Juniper, a self-defense instructor who gets ambushed by two would-be muggers just moments after impulsively buying a fifteen-dollar painting at a thrift store, and successfully fends them off thanks to the arrival of the police. Later while […]