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
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
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)
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Talk to Me (1996)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.