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Oct 4, 1996 · Surviving Picasso. One of the perennial dilemmas of movie biographies is that it is easy to film gossip and hard to film art. Thus we get great artists who spend vast quantities of time in bed, leaping up occasionally to dash off a painting, when in real life it was probably more a case of hours spent at work, and then a quick leap into the sack.
The movie and Hopkins' performance are certainly successful in displaying Picasso's human weaknesses; but there is a failure to adequately convey Picasso's enormous creative power, a weakness compounded by the fact that the makers were not allowed to use much of his work in the film. I see the film as a well made, excellently acted, but partial (in both senses of the word) portrait of the artist. Its real focus is the women in his life, especially Francoise Gilot, and on the two-way ...
Surviving Picasso. Anthony Hopkins gives a full-throttle performance as acclaimed artist in this movie told from viewpoint of Picasso’s longtime mistress and mother of his children Claude & Paloma. The price before discount is the median price for the last 90 days. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish ...
World-renowned painter Pablo Picasso (Anthony Hopkins) is notorious for his infidelity, but his French lover, Françoise Gilot (Natascha McElhone), manages to weather her stormy relationship with him better than many other women. While serving as Picasso's muse and the mother of two of his children, Gilot -- an artist in her own right -- has to contend with his relationships with other women, including his wife, dancer Olga Khokhlova (Jane Lapotaire), and photographer Dora Maar (Julianne Moore).
Sep 20, 1996 · Surviving Picasso is always intelligent and often entertaining, even when it perhaps inevitably takes on the character of an upmarket wax museum. [4 Oct 1996]
Sep 4, 1996 · The passionate Merchant-Ivory drama tells the story of Francoise Gilot, the only lover of Pablo Picasso who was strong enough to withstand his ferocious cruelty and move on with her life.
Nov 14, 2014 · Surviving Picasso Trailer 1996Director: James IvoryStarring: Anthony Hopkins, Julianne Moore, Joss Ackland, Joan Plowright, Natascha McElhone, Peter EyreOffi...
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