Article: BLOOD, SWEAT AND SHEEDY; ACTRESS LEAVES HER BRAT PACK PERSONA BEHIND TO TACKLE EDGY JUNKIE-ARTIST ROLE IN `HIGH ART'.(L.A. LIFE)

Byline: Bob Strauss Daily News Film Writer

Every time Ally Sheedy drifts on screen in the acclaimed new independent film ``High Art,'' our attention is riveted. Painfully thin, with a manner that oozes resignation and psychic agony yet also projects a steely sense of self-knowledge, Sheedy's dissolute Lucy Berliner has everything going for her, attention-getting-wise, that the movies love about self-destructive artists.

Yet there's something about Sheedy's performance that doesn't exploit the cliches, that places Lucy's drug abuse and misunderstood-genius angst within a natural, proportioned framework. It's an impressively well-judged job, the kind of ...

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