The story of a famous old sculptor, weary of life and the folly of men, who finds, thanks to the arrival of a Spanish girl escaped from a refugee camp, the desire to return to work and sculpt your final work in occupied France in 1943. Model and artist, as they work, speak with simplicity and closeness to everything around them: The life and death, the injustice of the war, youth and old age, the search for beauty in times of horror, the sense and the need for art ...
It is about inspiration and beauty, of course - and Folch, as a vagabond who escaped from a Spanish refugee camp, is certainly inspiring and beautiful.
– Steven Rea,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
23 Aug 2013
fresh:
"The Artist and the Model" is a contemplative ode to creativity and imagination.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
29 Aug 2013
rotten:
The film's insights about beauty are ... superficial. They amount to such commonplace observations as the fact that no two leaves are alike.
– Michael O'Sullivan,
Washington Post,
29 Aug 2013
rotten:
That old arthouse chestnut, about the restorative power of naked young women, gets another outing in this pretty but superficial musing on the creative process.
– Trevor Johnston,
Time Out,
10 Sep 2013
fresh:
This film has its own nature, almost its own reality. The sudden finish almost seems meant to make it our responsibility to comprehend the whole.