Locarno Review: Romantic Comedy or Philosophical Debate? Jose Luis Guerin's 'The Academy of Muses' is Both

READ MORE: Indiewire's Coverage of the 2015 Locarno Film Festival An aging theorist faces the progressive ideals of the 21st century in Catalan director Jose Luis Guerin's "The Academy of Muses," a fascinating look at the antics of an ethically dubious professor that defies easy categorization. In the simplest terms, Guerin — a formally ambitious filmmaker whose work often merges fact and fiction — focuses on the efforts of an instructor at the University of Barcelona who attempts to use concepts based on classic literature to sleep with his students. But there's nothing simple about "The Academic of Muses," which drops viewers into the center of a heady lecture by...

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