The Adventures of Picasso (1978)
- Original title
- Picassos äventyr
- Directed by
- Tage Danielsson
- Genre
- drama film, comedy film, biographical film
- Country
- Sweden
- Runtime
- 1h 49m
- Rated
- 7
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 61 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A wildly fictional biography of Pablo Picasso told as a surreal comedy. The film races through his life using ten different languages and a series of silly jokes and anachronisms.
whimsicalplayfulsurrealfast-pacedabsurdistlightheartednonsensicalchaotic
What happens
The Adventures of Picasso (Swedish: Picassos äventyr) is a 1978 Swedish surrealist comedy film directed by Tage Danielsson, starring Gösta Ekman, as the famous painter. The film had the tag-line Tusen kärleksfulla lögner av Hans Alfredson och Tage Danielsson (A thousand loving lies by Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson). At the 14th Guldbagge Awards it won the award for Best Film. The film uses ten languages: Spanish, French, Swedish, German, Finnish, Italian, English, Russian, Norwegian and Latin. Most of these words are very simple (agua, water), sometimes meaning something different from what they seem (Don Jose's military rank, Hauptbahnhof, which means "central rail station" in German) and other times just being complete nonsense. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Autumn Sonata (1978)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.