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Modigliani

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United Kingdom, Germany, Romania · 2004
Rated R · 2h 8m
Director Mick Davis
Starring Andy García, Elsa Zylberstein, Omid Djalili, Hippolyte Girardot
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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Village Voice by

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.

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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.

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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.

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