The Mystery of Picasso

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Actor: Claude Renoir, Pablo Picasso
Brand: Image Entertainment
Primary Contributor: Pablo Picasso
Primary Contributor: Claude Renoir
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-04
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Image Entertainment

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Movie Review: Picasso fan must
Summary: 4 Stars

Ok so this DVD is a little strange. It's pretty much live action drawing by Picasso, if you're a big Picasso fan like me and intrigued by him, you've got to see this. It's all in french and is subtitled into english, but the narration/dialogue isn't needed.
It's great to watch Picasso's genius at work, not something that can be seen very often. For the price that it is you could probably rent it and enjoy it, but I bought it and love it.

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Summary of The Mystery of Picasso

Like a matador confronting a bull, the artist approaches his easel. As he wields his brush, the painting dances into being before our eyes. Pablo Picasso, the most influential artist of the 20th century, is making art, and famous French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique, The Wages of Fear) is making a movie. This entirely new kind of art documentary captures the moment and the mystery of creativity; for the film, the master created 20 artworks, ranging from playful black-and-white sketches to widescreen color paintings. Using inks that bled through the paper, Picasso rapidly created fanciful drawings that Clouzot was able to film from the reverse side, capturing their creation in real time. When the artist decided to paint in oils, the filmmaker switched to color film and employed the magic of stop-motion animation. By contract, almost all of these paintings were destroyed when the film was completed. Unavailable for more than a decade, "The Mystery of Picasso" is exhilarating, mesmerizing, and unforgettable; it is simply one of the greatest documentaries on art ever made. The French government agrees; in 1984 it declared the film a national treasure.

Just as visual artists understand the relationship between positive and negative space in their work, France's master filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique) understood--and set about demonstrating via The Mystery of Picasso--the relationship between creation and destruction in the artistic process. In 1955, Clouzot teamed with his friend Pablo Picasso to capture as many aspects of the brilliant painter's working methods as possible. Clouzot innovatively placed the camera in front of Picasso while the latter worked, thus capturing astonishing reverse images of brush strokes and "bleeding" inks in volatile motion. The result is that Clouzot's film--the screen, the frame--become Picasso's canvas, and we find ourselves inside his prodigious genius as works of beauty spontaneously burst forth and are instantly crushed beneath the weight of new images, new ideas. A viewer would be forgiven if, more than once, he felt like screaming at such nonchalant carnage. --Tom Keogh

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