'Artworks' trues to take a rather classical story of seduction and theft and place it in the world of arts. It succeeds rather well on this respect, the setting is good, the camera work decent, the music fits well the action and the art works that play quite an important role in the film are good and credible. The problem of the film is that the theft story itself is pretty uninteresting and predictable. Worse, the characters are brought to the phase where they quite expectedly get into trouble at about three quarters of the screening time and then the rhythm changes, what was a decent psychological movie turns into some kind of remote controlled documentary and the movie ends with quite a banal and and rather anti-moral solution. Virginia Madsen and Rick Rossovic are a rather un-balanced cast for the film, she is sexy and interesting, he is artificial and boring and the relationship between the two does not work on the screen. Overall the film is not too bad, but it will be too easy to forget because of the lack of ambition, excepting the style.
