Synopsis
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and 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.
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Cast
- Andy GarcíaAmedeo Modigliani
- Elsa ZylbersteinJeanne Hébuterne
- Omid DjaliliPablo Picasso
- Hippolyte GirardotMaurice Utrillo
- Eva HerzigováOlga Picasso
- Miriam MargolyesGertrude Stein
- Udo KierMax Jacob
- Susie AmyBeatrice Hastings
- Peter CapaldiJean Cocteau
- Jim CarterAchilles Hebuterne
Recommendations
- 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Garcia has his moments as a wild man but the script never really allows him to plumb the artist's emotional depths. - 50
Variety
Can't overcome a didactic script. - 42
Entertainment Weekly
The lushness of a Modigliani is largely absent from Modigliani. - 40
TV Guide Magazine
The real-life Modigliani did indeed live a short, tragic life, but this factually inaccurate, plodding film makes it feel twice as long. - 38
New York Daily News
It's hard to take this oddball movie seriously. - 30
L.A. Weekly
A tiresome, hammy and ultimately annoying portrait of the artist as a young drunk. - 25
New York Post
An Iranian comedian named Omad Djalili plays Picasso, that sexually combustible Spanish bull, with all the earth-shaking allure of, say, Andy Richter. - 20
Los Angeles Times
Deeply silly and tendentious.
