Art School Confidential

“Who said anything about talent?”

Jerome (Max Minghella) has drawn since he was a kid, and he arrives at art school sure that talent is the only thing it will ask of him. Terry Zwigoff, working from a Daniel Clowes screenplay, puts him among classmates and teachers like Professor Sandiford (John Malkovich), who each judge a drawing by different standards. Jerome keeps sketching, and keeps wanting to be great, while the school shows him how little that has to do with it.