Modigliani
by Mick Davis
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Actor: Andy Garcia, Elsa Zylberstein, Eva Herzigova, Hippolyte Girardot, Omid DjaliliDirector: Mick Davis
Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: UMVD/Visual Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Modigliani
Movie Review: Revising history as soap opera
Summary: 1 Stars
The cinematography and sets were great, but the movie as a whole is a train wreck. (I also have to give great credit to the actors for giving their all.)
But in the spirit of art criticism, continue on; you may evolve into a more authentic film artist.
Who wrote this story? The same commitee who writes One Life To Live, or All My Children?
A visual artist friend brought this DVD over, along with another fictionalized version of Los Angeles skateboarding in the 60's. As with the Modigliani movie, it was all cliche', trash talking, drugs, violence, and general soap opera.
Modigliani, the movie, could have been a really interesting movie if the writers had made it in documentary form as Dog Town the skate board documentay movie was, which was great, with actual photos of the
subject individuals, places where they performed, etc. But no, they had to trash it up with over-dramatized versions of all the characters, unrealistic ways art shows work, etc.
Recently I watched the Clint Eastwood movie on Johnny Mercer; in documentary form. It is wonderful, with great historical photos of the people in the creative part of popular music from the 30's through the 70's. Johnny Mercer apparently was a mean drunk, but not self destructive like Modigliani.
I personally am sick of watching soap opera forms of dysfunctional people and families. Not to mention all the crap on TV, a high percentage of which is about some crime scenario. Even the news channels go on for days about the latest mass shooting by some malcontent.
Summary of Modigliani
Andy Garcia stars as the painter Modigliani, an Italian Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a 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 needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Modigliani and his dearest friend and rival Picasso believe that competitions are beneath true artists like themselves, but with the welfare of his child on the line, Modigliani signs up. Picasso follows suit and soon Paris is aflutter with excitement over the outcome.Art House & International DVD Video
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