Elsa and Fred, two senior citizens, embark on a journey of love and self-discovery when they meet in their apartment building. Elsa, a lively and eccentric woman, brings new excitement into the life of Fred, a grumpy and reserved man. As they navigate their way through their golden years, they learn to let go of their pasts, embrace the present, and find happiness in unexpected places.
Surviving Picasso is a movie that delves into the life of the legendary artist, exploring his complicated relationships, his artistic creations, and the impact of World War II on his work. It showcases his womanizing ways, physical abuse towards his lovers, and his inescapable genius.
Two crooked gallery officials swap a Picasso for a fake hoping to make a fortune. When thieves break into the gallery to steal the Picasso, an amusing chain reaction snowballs into a hilarious romp.
In 1937 the Nazi regime held two exhibitions in Munich: one to stigmatize “Degenerate Art” (which they systematically looted and destroyed) and one, personally curated by Hitler, to glorify “Classic Art”. This immersive new documentary reveals the Nazi’s complicated relationship with classical and modern art, displaying an incredible number of masterpieces by Botticelli, Klee, Matisse, Monet, Chagall, Renoir and Gauguin amongst others, intertwined with human stories from the most infamous period of the twentieth century. A state-of-the-art detective story exploring the Nazis’ obsession with creative expression, Hitler versus Picasso combines history, art and human drama for an unforgettable cinema experience.
Modigliani tells the story of the famous artist's struggles and triumphs, his forbidden love, and his untimely death. Set in Paris in 1919, the film follows Modigliani as he battles tuberculosis, faces discrimination, and fights for his art to be recognized.
The movie follows the fictional biography of Pablo Picasso, including his interactions with famous characters such as Ernest Hemingway, Winston Churchill, Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dali, and Sergei Diaghilev. It showcases his artistic journey, from his early struggles in Montmartre, Paris to his rise as a renowned painter in Spain and his later life in the French Riviera. The movie incorporates slapstick comedy elements and explores themes of art, death, and love.
A San Francisco couple travels to France in search of Pablo Picasso.
Take Her, She's Mine is a comedy film that delves into the generation gap through the story of a father and daughter in 1960s Paris. With themes of family relationships, college life, and teenage rebellion, the film uses humor to navigate the challenges of youth and parenthood. Set against the backdrop of a vibrant city and featuring memorable characters, Take Her, She's Mine invites audiences to embrace the complexities of life and the bonds that hold families together.
His art changed the way we see the world - now change the way you see the artist. An unflinching look at Picasso's legacy, and the horror and brilliance of what he left behind. Family, friends and experts reassess the tumultuous artistic and personal life of Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most provocative artists of all time.
Picasso: Magic, Sex, & Death is a three-episode Channel 4 film documentary series on Pablo Picasso presented by the artist's friend and biographer John Richardson, and directed by Christopher Bruce or British art critic Waldemar Januszczak, who was also the series director. On-screen contributors include Picasso descendants such as Paloma Picasso, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Diana Widmaier-Picasso, Maya Picasso, and Claude Picasso; along with authorities such as Mary Ann Caws, Billy Klüver, Gérard Régnier, James Lord, Bernard Minoret, Robert Rosenblum, Linda Gasman, Marilyn McCully, David Gilmore and Gertje Utley; one former mistress; and one flirtation.
Séraphine follows the life of Séraphine de Senlis, a simple maid working in a small town in France. Unbeknownst to anyone, she has an extraordinary talent for painting. When a German art connoisseur discovers her work, Séraphine's life takes a dramatic turn as she becomes a celebrated artist. However, her success is short-lived as the Great Depression hits, causing financial problems for her and her art dealer. As her mental state deteriorates, she is eventually admitted to an insane asylum.
Schwartz reordered and combined angular contours, broken planes, and distorted proportions in her own pictorial structures in an homage to Picasso's style.
The story of a nine-year-old boy Denis, who first enters the circus. The new world captures his imagination. He falls in love with a little actress, an equilibrist — a girl on a ball. After a while, Denis persuades his father to go with him to the circus again. But the performances in Moscow ended, the fairy flew away to another city... Once, being in a museum, he sees a painting by Pablo Picasso "Girl on a Ball". In this picture he recognizes his love — Tanya ...
The evolution of Picasso's painting up to his “pink phase.”
Biographer Sir John Richardson and Picasso’s granddaughter, Diana Widmaier Picasso, are the star witnesses in a documentary that reassesses the artist’s output in the years before his death in 1973. The story is of a creative spirit finding new impetus in response to both death’s approach and the censure of contemporaries and critics. Those who were members of Picasso’s private inner circle – gossip about his lifestyle also helped to fire him back up – put the later work forward as some of his frankest, wittiest and most profound.
An imaginary insight into Pablo Picasso's creative mind and painted creatures and characters. We enter in his head and walk with him the intricate maze that was his imagination to find the creatures and stories that populated his psyche and came out when he painted a canvas. His imagination is presented as the myth of the maze and the Minotaur, and some of the characters in the piece are in Picasso's real paintings - his famous dove, the Minotaur, and the ladies of Avignon, among many others.
Paris, 1911. When Da Vinci's painting “La Gioconda” is stolen from the Louvre museum, it is suspected that the authors of the audacious theft are members of a group of bohemian artists led by painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire…
Home movie from Man Ray while on vacation with Pablo Picasso, Paul, Nusch and Cecile Eluard, Emily Davies, Valerie and Roland Penrose. The friends have fun with themselves and performing for the camera.
In 1906, Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso were 24 and 25 years old. The Butte Montmartre is their Parisian sanctuary where artists in need of recognition meet. Braque and Picasso become friends to the point of never leaving each other. For the moment, their paintings do not interest many people; only Apollinaire, then aged 26, and the young gallery owner Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 22, saw immense potential in them. And in addition to their passion for painting, these four inseparable boys share the same appetite for modernity. Collages, diversions of materials and geometrization of forms: cubism opened the way to abstraction. A revolution initiated by Picasso and Braque, which profoundly changed the course of the history of modern art.
Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest artists of all time - and right up until his death in 1973 he was the most prolific of artists. Many films have dealt with these later years - the art, the affairs and the wide circle of friends. But where did this all begin? What made Picasso in the first place? Too long ignored, it is time to look at the early years of Picasso; the upbringing and the learning that led to his extraordinary achievements.