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Genius (1970)

Genius poster
Directed by
Gregory Markopoulos
Country
France, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Runtime
1h
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Using the Faust legend as a framework, this film profiles three art world figures: David Hockney, Leonor Fini, and Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler. Each character embodies the anxieties and conflicts of their era.

experimentalslow-burncerebralcontemplativeabstractintellectualvisually densefragmentedpoetic

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