Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili

Andy Garcia stars as the painter Modigliani, an Italian Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby...( read more  read more... ) to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Modigliani and his dearest friend and rival Picasso believe that competitions are beneath true artists like themselves, but with the welfare of his child on the line, Modigliani signs up. Picasso follows suit and soon Paris is aflutter with excitement over the outcome.

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R, 2 hrs. 6 min.

Directed by: Mick Davis

Release Date: September 24, 2004

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DVD Release Date: September 27, 2005

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  • August 20, 2009
    La biografía del célebre pintor Modigliani.
  • August 8, 2009
    Maybe the worst movie I've ever seen... Don't watch it if you like art! What's the point to show that Modigliani and Picasso were two assholes ? Nothing is true in this film! Picasso wasn't an odious fat painter (he was very thin), his portrait of Modigliani doesn't exist, the so...( read more)ngs doesn't fit with the time (Edith Piaf's La vie en rose was created far after), the contest has never existed. Everything is painful to see... Mick Davis should have warn that it was a imaginary portrait of Modigliani like the movie about Diane Arbus. The only thing interristing and faithful to the truth was the love story, so just watch it for that exclusively.
    /Peut-être le pire film que j'ai jamais vu. A éviter si on aime l'art. Tout est faux dans ce film qui montre Modigliani et Picasso comme 2 connards. On ne montre jamais ce qu'a apporté ces peintres à l'art ou qu'elle était vraiment la profondeur de leur travail. Il n'y a que l'histoire d'amour qui soit intéressante... et encore./
  • August 4, 2009
    This movie is depressing in the extreme. An Italian Jew (Andy Garcia as Modigliani) falls in love with a Catholic woman and it infuriates her father. He also starts a private war of one-upmanship with Pablo Picasso. It just keeps getting more and more depressing every step of the...( read more) way.
  • March 7, 2009
    Good movie about the painter Modigliani and his intense rivalry with Picasso. I'm not sure this really happened though, may be poetic licence.
  • August 23, 2008
    I couldn touch the softness of being who u wanne be
  • July 17, 2008
    thought it was alot of long boring talking.
  • July 12, 2008
    Fastinating, visually appealing, but emotionally overwrought period drama
  • July 3, 2008
    Maybe just not enough like the true life of Modigliani, but the movie is beautiful.
  • March 19, 2008
    Tomándose varias licencias, el guionista británico Mick Davis (The Match, Frozen on Fear, The Invisible) en Modigliani (Rumania-Italia-Alemania-Reino Unido-Francia, 2004), su segundo largometraje, se permite momentos desternillantes, posibles tan sólo en las fantasías de algún hi...( read more)storiador del arte. En una escena, son situados varios pintores famosos de aquella época, en un solo lugar: Modigliani, Picasso, Utrillo, Diego Rivera, todos y cada uno firmando su inscripción para concursar en el famoso, rígido y académico Salon de Arte parisino.

    Si bien Davis logra que su filme se aleje del simple producto televisivo, a través de una magnífica fotografía y ambientación, también es cierto que hay momentos en que la película goza y a la vez sufre de un tono voudevilezco, teatral e, incluso, del moderno musical. En serio, a veces parece que los protagonistas se pondrán a bailar y cantar, encima de las mesas del Café des Artistes.

    Con todo y la buena actuación de García, Zilberstein y el resto del reparto, Modigliani se aleja de lo grande que pudo haber sido. Desafortunadamente se detiene demasiado en las excesivas confrontaciones entre Modigliani y Picasso, al punto de ser algo fastidiosas, sin profundizar más en lo que verdaderamente importa: el hermoso arte de Amadeo Modigliani, quien quizás pintó los desnudos femeninos más bellos de la pintura moderna.
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Critic Reviews


July 1, 2005
Kyle Smith, New York Post

Thanks to writer-director Mick Davis, the film, like its subject, dies young. full review

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  • terris85017
    May 22, 2007
    GREAT MOVIE IF YOU LOVE ART OR BIOGRAPHIES ABOUT ARTISTS!!
    (May, 2005 Director: Mick Davis) WONDERFUL THOUGH TRAGIC!! Do you love the Renaissance? Art? This is a story set in Paris of a cubist painter during the time of Picasso! It portrays the alcolism & poverty of those dedicated to their Art. This is a rare performance by Andy Garcia and an impeccable portrait of the life and times of a bygone era. Don't miss this one!!
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