The Art of Love (1965)

Directed by

Norman Jewison

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 39m

Rated

16

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An American artist in Paris fakes his own death to drive up the value of his paintings. His friend sells the artwork and keeps the money while the artist hides out in a shabby apartment.

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What happens

The Art of Love is a 1965 American technicolor comedy film directed by Norman Jewison and starring James Garner, Dick Van Dyke, Elke Sommer, and Angie Dickinson. The film involves an American artist in Paris (Van Dyke) who fakes his own death in order to increase the worth of his paintings (new paintings keep "posthumously" hitting the market). His conniving pal (Garner) sells the paintings and withholds the proceeds while the artist toils in a shabby garret. The picture was written by Carl Reiner (from a story by Richard Alan Simmons and William Sackheim). The supporting cast features Carl Reiner and Ethel Merman. Jewison noted in his autobiography that the film's flaw was that the script assumes that an artist's death guarantees a huge increase in the sales value of his paintings. That hurt audiences' responses to the movie enormously. All of the paintings that were used in the movie were the work of international artist Don Cincone. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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