Modigliani (2004)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.9/10   

Director:

Mick Davis

Guionista:

Mick Davis (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

29 septiembre 2004 (France)

Género:

Biografía | Drama

Frase comercial:

His passion was life. His obsession was art.

Plot:

The story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.

Plot Keywords:

Modigliani | Montparnasse

Premios:

2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Witnessing the Bohemian Life of Paris, 1919: Artists Awry

Reparto

Andy Garcia	...	Amedeo Modigliani
Elsa Zylberstein	...	Jeanne Hébuterne
Omid Djalili	...	Pablo Picasso
Hippolyte Girardot	...	Maurice Utrillo
Eva Herzigova	...	Olga, Picasso's Wife
Udo Kier	...	Max Jacob
Susie Amy	...	Beatrice Hastings
Peter Capaldi	...	Jean Cocteau (as Peter Capadli)
Louis Hilyer	...	Zborowski
Stevan Rimkus	...	Soutine
Dan Astileanu	...	Diego Rivera (as Dan Astilean)
George Ivascu	...	Moise Kisling
Michelle Newell	...	Eudoxie Hébuterne
Frederico Ambrosino	...	Little Dedo
Miriam Margolyes	...	Gertrude Stein

También conocida como:

Colori dell'anima I - Modigliani (Italy)
Modigliani - Ein Leben in Leidenschaft (Alemania) (DVD title)
Untitled Modigliani Project (USA) (working title)
Modigliani (Argentina) [es]

MPAA:

Rated R for some language and drug use.

Duración:

128 min

País:

USA | France | Alemania | Italy | Romania | UK

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Clasificación:

Finland:K-11 | Australia:M | Argentina:13 | Brazil:16 | Portugal:M/12 | Spain:13 | Singapore:NC-16 | Netherlands:12 | Norway:11 | USA:R | Sweden:Btl

Locaciones de Filmación:

Bucharest, Romania

Compañía:

Lucky 7 Productions LLC

Errores:

Anacronismos: Maria Tanase couldn't have had written one of the songs at the time the movie takes place, since she was a child.

Banda de Sonido:

Ode to Innocence

Witnessing the Bohemian Life of Paris, 1919: Artists Awry

MODIGLIANI is a difficult movie to review. It has some very strong features such as the cinematography that captures the artsy feeling of Paris 1919 and, despite excesses, manages to create some visuals of hallucinations and the wild madness of painters painting canvasses; a rather complex peak into the lives of several of the more revolutionary artists of the time; and a substantial feeling for the interchange between artist and model. The main problem with the film is a script that is banal, limited in historical validity, and concentrating on a single rather silly motif of a painters' competition.

Amedeo Modigliani (1884 - 1920) was a Sephardic Jew from Italy who moved to the mecca of Paris to create his brilliant portraits and sculptures of nudes and extended neck women and girls. His genius lay in his unifying the spiritual Eastern iconography (tribal art and Judaism) of his heritage with the Christian (read Catholic) traditions of the artists with whom he associated which resulted in his creations of the female nude from a feminist cultural perspective. What this film delivers is a rather annoying portrait of a young consumptive artist who drank and drugged himself to death at a moment in his career when renown was just beginning. The reasons for his place in art history are merely hinted all for the sake of the Hollywood biopic.

Andy Garcia plays Modigliani with a modicum of élan and a plethora of bad traits. The lovely model Jeanne Hébuterne (Elsa Zylberstein) who was the subject not only of his portraits but the mother of his illegitimate child and his live-in paramour is a bit long in the tooth on suffering, though despite the fact that Zylberstien is hampered by both a weak script and limited acting, she does have an uncanny resemblance to Jeanne. The artists with whom 'Modi' works include a strangely miscast Picasso (Omid Djalili), Chaim Soutine (Stevan Rimkus), Maurice Utrillo (Hippolyte Girardot), Diego Rivera (Dan Astileanu), Zborowski (Louis Hilyer), and the strangely non-effeminate Jean Cocteau (Peter Capaldi)! Dealer Max Jacob (Udo Kier) and Gertrude Stein (Miriam Margolyes!) are thrown in with the harlequins and 'Modi's' child spirit Dedo (Frederico Ambrosino) for atmosphere. The storyline is one that could have easily been told in the requisite time frame but MODIGLIANI taxes the viewers' attention for over two hours.

So aside from a visually exciting experience there is really very little to be learned from this liquor and opium soaked consumptive noisy melodrama that could have been about any one of the artists involved in the story. The genius of Modigliani is barely tapped. Grady Harp