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06/24/06
Modigliani (2005)
5 %
Reviews Counted: 22 Fresh: 1 Rotten:21 Average Rating: 3.7/10
Consensus:
Nearly everyone is miscast in this disjointed and slow-moving portrait of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.
Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins
Synopsis: This lavish biopic directed by Mick Davis follows Italian painter Amadeo Modigliani (Andy Garcia) as he struggles to establish himself as a successful artist in early 20th-century Paris. The film mainly focuses on Modigliani's tumultuous relationships with friend and rival Pablo... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Andy Garcia, Omid Djalili, Elsa Zylberstein, Udo Kier, Hyppolite Girarot
Director: Mick Davis
Screenwriter: Mick Davis
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Andre Djaoui, Stephanie Martinez-Campeau, Alan Latham
Screenwriter: Mick Davis
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Andre Djaoui, Stephanie Martinez-Campeau, Alan Latham
Reviews
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08/16/07
A film of vitality, with imagery as haunting and romantic as it is intense.
07/07/05
No one expected a documentary, but serious art-history students may feel let down.
07/07/05
The real-life Modigliani did indeed live a short, tragic life, but this factually inaccurate, plodding film makes it feel twice as long.
07/01/05
Modigliani is slow, shamefully cliched and disjointed as a cubist portrait.
07/01/05
Thanks to writer-director Mick Davis, the film, like its subject, dies young.
07/01/05
It's hard to take this oddball movie seriously, right down to the undisguised streetwise-American accent of Andy Garcia as the Italian Jew Amedeo Modigliani.
07/01/05
The best and maybe the only use to be made of the catastrophic screen biography Modigliani is to serve as a textbook outline of how not to film the life of a legendary artist.
06/30/05
Top Critic
It ain't pretty but you have a choisa: See Modigliani or rent Derek Jarman's Caravaggio instead.
06/28/05
Sadly, instead of situating the l'amour fou in the artistic ferment of the period (1917-1920), Davis twists the period to fit the story.
06/28/05
Director Mick Davis shows little if any imagination in presenting the troubled genius or the remarkable Montparnasse art scene of the World War I era, and that's the real bummer.
05/13/05
Modigliani may have been noted for his drunken volatility and arrogance, but once you get a dozen years or so of Behind the Musics and E! True Hollywood Stories behind you, it's hard to get worked up about that sort of thing anymore.
05/12/05
Top Critic
Mick Davis' prosaic art biopic Modigliani is a tiresome, hammy and ultimately annoying portrait of the artist as a young drunk.
05/12/05
Modigliani’s problems lie in its contentment with superficial clichés
05/11/05
A third of it is an episodically disordered string of scenes that coalesce into a narrative. The remaining two thirds is melodrama.
05/04/05
Despite some nice shots of scenes converting into well-known art, Modigliani is plainly, badly directed.
02/04/05
A fantastic reminder that the only thing worse than a bad movie is a bad, pretentious movie.
02/03/05
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