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A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte

Movie: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Painting: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Author: George Seurat
About the film
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Mia Sara, Jennifer Grey, Lyman Ward, Cindy Pickett, Edie McClurg, Kristy Swanson, Alan Ruck
Actors in scene: Alan Ruck
Country (movie): USA
Genres: comedy
Director: John Hughes
Writers: John Hughes
Time of scene: 00:57:22
Release year: 1986
About the painting
Title: A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Author: George Seurat
Date of creation: 1886
Style: post-impressionism
Size: large
Artist's country: France
Room: museum
Room colors: white, brown
Theme: genre scene
Color: white, red, green, multicolored
Additional information:

As Ferris and Sloane kiss in front of a stained-glass window, Cameron concentrates on George Seurat’s painting “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.” Explaining the pointillist style — and moviemanking, teenage angst and adult insecurity — Hughes says, “I always thought this painting was sort of like making a movie, the pointillist style,” he says. “You don’t have any idea what you’ve made until you step back from it. … The more he looks at it, there’s nothing there. He fears that the more you look at him, the less you see.”