Surviving Picasso

Surviving Picasso (1996)

  • 33% of critics liked it
    (18 reviews)

  • 57% of users liked it
    (3,894 ratings)

This unusual biography of the renowned Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is a Merchant-Ivory film. The team of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has been responsible for many period dramas, including A Room with a View and Howard's End. The story of… More

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R, 2 hr. 5 min.
Directed By
James Ivory
Genres
Drama, Romance
In Theaters
Sep 4, 1996 Wide
On DVD
Mar 25, 1997
Warner Home Video

Critic Reviews

  • Daniel M. Kimmel, Variety

    ...a stunning debut by Natascha McElhone...

  • Nick Davis, Nick's Flick Picks

    Ambition notwithstanding, Surviving Picasso fails prodigiously, mostly out of its own confusion over who it is about and what it wants to say.

  • Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

    Covers ten turbulent years in the life of this major luminary of 20th century art.

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  • Red L


    Like a movie star, Picasso had many relationships. This movie is about one of those relationships in fact, between Picasso at 60 and a 20's year old Francoise. I cannot believe how dependant on Picasso the mistresses are, but there is hope in the heroine of the movie.

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