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years, to the artist as a mentally unstable alcoholic living in Greenwich Village with his brother and his brother’s disapproving wife. Everything changes for him when a knock on his door reveals fellow painter Krasner (Harden in easily the strongest performance of her career), introducing herself, as she puts it, to the only Abstract Expressionist in New York she hasn’t met.
Raised in Brooklyn, from a Russian Jewish background, Krasner is in many ways Pollock’s opposite: she’s verbal and self-assured and faces the world with confidence. Both parties immediately sense the possibility of a relationship.
Once they are together, Krasner becomes Pollock’s tireless advocate and propagandist. She encourages him in his work and does the best she can with his alcoholic binges.
Harris is nothing short of brilliant as Pollock, nailing the painter’s sinewy physicality and tortured psyche. Harden is equally excellent as Krasner, movingly depicting a woman who eventually tires of playing the dual roles of mother and lover.
Rated R, the film runs 123 minutes.
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