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Modigliani

Modigliani

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  • United Kingdom,
  • Germany,
  • Romania,
  • France,
  • Italy
  • 2004
  • · 128m

Director Mick Davis
Cast Andy García, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili, Hippolyte Girardot, Eva Herzigová, Miriam Margolyes
Genre Drama

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. Modigliani is distraught and

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What are critics saying?

50

Variety by Lisa Nesselson

Can't overcome a didactic script.

50

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

Garcia has his moments as a wild man but the script never really allows him to plumb the artist's emotional depths.

42

Entertainment Weekly by Scott Brown

The lushness of a Modigliani is largely absent from Modigliani.

40

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

The real-life Modigliani did indeed live a short, tragic life, but this factually inaccurate, plodding film makes it feel twice as long.

38

New York Daily News by Jami Bernard

It's hard to take this oddball movie seriously.

30

L.A. Weekly by Kim Morgan

A tiresome, hammy and ultimately annoying portrait of the artist as a young drunk.

25

New York Post

An Iranian comedian named Omad Djalili plays Picasso, that sexually combustible Spanish bull, with all the earth-shaking allure of, say, Andy Richter.

20

Village Voice

Sadly, instead of situating the l'amour fou in the artistic ferment of the period (1917-1920), Davis twists the period to fit the story.

20

Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano

Deeply silly and tendentious.

10

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

The best and maybe the only use to be made of the catastrophic screen biography Modigliani is to serve as a textbook outline of how not to film the life of a legendary artist.