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Cezanne and I(Cézanne et moi)

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Belgium, France · 2016
Rated R · 1h 57m
Director Danièle Thompson
Starring Guillaume Gallienne, Guillaume Canet, Alice Pol, Déborah François
Genre Drama

In 19th century Provence, two iconic French artists meet: writer Emile Zola and painter Paul Cezanne. Cezanne and I follows the intense, lifelong friendship between the two men as they lose touch, reunite in Paris, and navigate their lives and careers alongside each other.

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Total Film by

The cinematography’s sumptuous, but pacing is very stop-start. Worse, there’s an aura of male entitlement, fuelled by the script’s uncritical reverence of its flawed philanderers.

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Village Voice by Chuck Wilson

The film gains power in the final third...one wishes Thompson had chosen to view the great artist's lives through the eyes of the women who loved (and tolerated) them

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The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo

Intensive research has killed many a biopic, but Cézanne Et Moi, which recounts the tempestuous lifelong friendship between Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola, labors even more tediously than most to accommodate personal details, whether or not those details serve the narrative.

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The New York Times by Stephen Holden

Cézanne et Moi offers a pungent, demystifying portrait of the rowdy late-19th-century Parisian art world where famous painters and poets mingled and jostled for position at dinner parties and art openings filled with shoptalk, backbiting and intrigue.

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