Rotten
Instead of trying to provide insight into this genius's debilitating madness, Davis prefers to wallow in incoherent and cliched misery, punctuated by poetically oblique imagery.
Raven Snook, Time Out New York
Modigliani
His passion was life. His obsession was art.
2004 · 2h 8m · R
Drama
Directed by
Mick Davis
Overview
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns.
Director and cast
- Mick Davis Director
- Andy Garcia as Amedeo Modigliani
- Elsa Zylberstein as Jeanne Hébuterne
- Omid Djalili as Pablo Picasso
- Hippolyte Girardot as Maurice Utrillo
- Eva Herzigová as Olga Picasso
- Miriam Margolyes as Gertrude Stein
- Udo Kier as Max Jacob
- Susie Amy as Beatrice Hastings
- Peter Capaldi as Jean Cocteau
- Jim Carter as Achilles Hebuterne
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
4%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A film of vitality, with imagery as haunting and romantic as it is intense.
Rex Reed, New York Observer
Rotten
Modigliani is slow, shamefully cliched and disjointed as a cubist portrait.
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger
Rotten
Thanks to writer-director Mick Davis, the film, like its subject, dies young.
Kyle Smith, New York Post
Rotten
It's hard to take this oddball movie seriously, right down to the undisguised streetwise-American accent of Andy Garcia as the Italian Jew Amedeo Modigliani.
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News
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