A painter and her muse build a blissful dream-life for themselves behind closed doors, far from the watchful eyes of a callous society. Each leads a reputable life full of service and devotion outside of the creative refuge they’ve pieced together for themselves.
Modern culture might argue there’s nothing dishonorable about the long autumn evenings spent sipping spirits, cooking extravagant spreads, dancing, painting, and laughing into the wee hours, but when a jealous suitor begins poking around, the entire hamlet gets pulled into the uproar.
Is This Still Life? puts the zing back into “Amazing."