Directed by:
James IvoryCinematography:
Tony Pierce-RobertsComposer:
Richard RobbinsCast:
Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Joss Ackland, Dennis Boutsikaris, Peter Gerety, Susannah Harker, Jane Lapotaire, Joseph Maher (more)VOD (1)
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During the German occupation of Paris in 1943, legendary painter Pablo Picasso (Anthony Hopkins) launches a tumultuous 10-year affair with Françoise Gilot (Natasha McElhone), an aspiring artist four decades his junior. Drawn by her beauty and vitality, the mercurial master nonetheless cannot resist the impulse to break her will with continued dalliances with other women and remorseless bullying. Julianne Moore is the painter's former lover, Dora Maar, and Diane Venora plays Jacqueline, the woman who would take Françoise's place with Picasso, in this fascinating portrait of the intense, larger-than-life character. (official distributor synopsis)
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I don’t know if it’s because I don’t know much about Picasso’s life and the filmmaking industry is much closer to me, but when I compare Anthony Hopkins’ Picasso and Hitchcock, I have to say Hitchcock wins. It almost seems as if Hopkins tried harder when portraying him. In this movie it looks as if he did not put much effort into it. If not for Natascha McElhone and Julianne Moore, the film would be completely bland without anything pretty. Thank God for them, otherwise I would have died of boredom.
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