Surviving Picasso (1996)

Directed by

James Ivory

Genre

drama film, biographical film, romance film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h

Rated

R

Rating

5.8 of 10 from 107 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film looks at the life of artist Pablo Picasso from the perspective of one of his lovers and muses. It shows how his demanding personality and volatile relationships affected the people close to him.

intimatetenseemotionally complexmeasured pacingobservationalmelancholicart-centricrelationship-driven

What happens

Surviving Picasso is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed by James Ivory and starring Anthony Hopkins as the famous painter Pablo Picasso. It was produced by Ismail Merchant and David L. Wolper. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay was loosely based on the 1988 biography Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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