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Surviving Picasso is a 1996 Merchant Ivory film directed by James Ivory and starring Anthony Hopkins as the famous painter Pablo Picasso. It was produced by Ismail Merchant and David L. Wolper. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay was loosely based on the biography Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington.

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Surviving Picasso
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	James Ivory
Screenplay by	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Based on	Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington
Produced by	Ismail Merchant David L. Wolper
Starring	Anthony Hopkins Natascha McElhone Julianne Moore Joss Ackland Peter Eyre Jane Lapotaire Joseph Maher Bob Peck Diane Venora Joan Plowright
Cinematography	Tony Pierce-Roberts
Edited by	Andrew Marcus
Music by	Richard Robbins
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	September 20, 1996 (1996-09-20)
Running time	125 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$16 million[1]
Box office	$2 million[1]

Plot

The young Françoise meets Picasso in Nazi-occupied Paris, where Picasso is complaining that people broke into his house and stole his linen, rather than his paintings. It shows Françoise being beaten by her father after telling him she wants to be a painter, rather than a lawyer. Picasso is shown as often not caring about other people's feelings, firing his driver after a long period of service, and as a womanizer, saying that he can sleep with whomever he wants.

The film is seen through the eyes of his lover Françoise Gilot (Natascha McElhone). As the producers were unable to get permission to show the works of Picasso in the film, the film is more about Picasso's personal life rather than his works, and where it does show paintings, they are not his more famous works. When Picasso is shown painting Guernica, the camera sits high above the painting, with the work only slightly visible.

The film depicts several of the women who were important in Picasso's life, such as Olga Khokhlova (played by Jane Lapotaire), Dora Maar (played by Julianne Moore), Marie-Thérèse Walter (played by Susannah Harker), and Jacqueline Roque (played by Diane Venora).

Cast

• Anthony Hopkins as Pablo Picasso
• Natascha McElhone as Françoise Gilot
• Julianne Moore as Dora Maar
• Joss Ackland as Henri Matisse
• Dennis Boutsikaris as Kootz
• Peter Eyre as Sabartes
• Peter Gerety as Marcel
• Susannah Harker as Marie-Thérèse Walter
• Jane Lapotaire as Olga Khokhlova
• Joseph Maher as Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler
• Bob Peck as Françoise's Father
• Joan Plowright as Françoise's Grandmother
• Diane Venora as Jacqueline Roque
• Dominic West as Paulo Picasso
• Laura Aikman as Maya Widmaier-Picasso
• Nigel Whitmey as Pierre
• Leon Lissek
• Andreas Wisniewski
• Anthony Milner
• Tom Fisher
• Vernon Dobtcheff as Sergei Diaghilev
• Hamish McColl
• Sandor Elès, Brigitte Kahn, Olegar Fedoro as Party Guests
• Rose English
• Judith Sharp

Production

The film was shot in Paris and southern France.

Reception

The film received mixed reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a rating of 35% based on reviews from 20 critics.[2] On Metacritic it has a score of 55 out of 100, based on reviews from 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[3]

References

External links

• Surviving Picasso at IMDb
• Surviving Picasso at Rotten Tomatoes
• Surviving Picasso at Box Office Mojo

На других языках

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[ru] Прожить жизнь с Пикассо

«Прожить жизнь с Пикассо» (англ. Surviving Picasso) — американский кинофильм режиссёра Джеймса Айвори, вышедший на экраны в 1996 году. Лента основана на книге Арианны Стассинопулос Хаффингтон «Пикассо: создатель и разрушитель» и рассказывает в основном об отношениях художника с многочисленными женами и любовницами.

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