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Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION EAN: 0602498842478 Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: UMVD/Visual Entertainment Languages: Manufacturer: UMVD/Visual Entertainment MPN: FI4247DVD Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: UMVD/Visual Entertainment Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 27, 2005 Running Time: 128 minutes Studio: UMVD/Visual Entertainment Theatrical Release Date: 2004 Editorial Review: Product Description: Andy Garcia brings to life artistic genius Amedeo Modigliani'sstory of tragic love rivalry and excess in the midst of arthistory's golden age when greats like Picasso Rivera Cocteauand Modigliani held court in the salons of post-WWI Paris.System Requirements: Running Time 127 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 602498842478 Manufacturer No: FI4247DVD Average Rating:
 Rating:  - How does a blind man paint? The question is asked of the artist, Modigliani, by his lover, Jeanne Hebuterne while the two ride a streetcar in Paris. Moreover, it is an appropriate one considering Modigliani's life. He sleepwalks through life mostly oblivious to opportunities for exaltation and abasement alike. Although the artist is dying of TB, he continues to drink, smoke, and take opium. He is also blind to Jeanne's unhappiness. Their baby daughter is taken under order from Jeanne's father, by the French ... Read More Rating: - WowWhy this movie did not get a wider audience is a mystery. It may not be the most historically acurate movie, How many are?, but it is beautifully shot, well acted, with a wonderful music score Rating: - Modigliani: A Passionate Cinematic Ode to One Madly Passionate ArtistDirector and writer Mick Davis, in a disclaimer at the beginning of the film MODIGLIANI, cautions viewers that it is a fictional work based loosely on the lives of its historical characters. What the disclaimer does not point out is how brilliantly the film captures the ironies of artistic achievement and the agonies of human failings that characterized the challenging lives of those same historical personages. At the smoldering core of Modigliani is a love affair between ... Read More Rating: - "When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes."A contemporary and antagonist of his contemporary Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920), an Italian Jew, makes his mark in pre-world war Paris, an avant garde painter caught up in the heady bohemian atmosphere of a turn-of-the-century city. Barely able to scrape a living together, Modigliani is a tortured soul with infinite curiosity, painting the visions in his head, certainly as groundbreaking as those of the larger-than-life Picasso. While Picasso is the darling of Paris, Amadeo's ... Read More Rating:  - Dark life = dark movieAndy García played Spanish poet Federico García Lorca so well; I had high hopes for his portrayal of Amadeo Modigliani. These hopes were only partly realized. This movie needed tighter direction and García deserved a better supporting cast. Jeanne Hebutern was visually arresting and well acted. The rest of the cast were only so-so. I have seen the film once now and once was enough. |
