The Lovers of Montparnasse (1958)

Original title

Les Amants de Montparnasse

Directed by

Max Ophüls, Jacques Becker

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

Germany, France, Italy

Runtime

1h 45m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 51 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film follows the final years of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani as he struggles with poverty and his craft in Paris. It centers on his relationships with two women, Beatrice Hastings and Jeanne Hebuterne, who become his muses.

bittersweetmelancholicpoeticdeliberatevisually lushintrospectivetragicatmospheric

What happens

Montparnasse 19 (French: Les Amants de Montparnasse, lit. 'The Lovers of Montparnasse') is a 1958 French-Italian drama film directed and co-written by Jacques Becker, partially based on the last years of the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, who worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse area of Paris. Some of his most famous paintings done then were of his last two lovers, Beatrice Hastings and Jeanne Hébuterne. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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