My husband Picasso
| Movie | |
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| German title | My husband Picasso |
| Original title | Surviving Picasso |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | James Ivory |
| script | Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
| production |
Paul Bradley Ismail Merchant Donald Rosenfeld David L. Wolper |
| music | Richard Robbins |
| camera | Tony Pierce-Roberts |
| cut | Andrew Marcus |
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My husband Picasso (Original title: Surviving Picasso ) is a US American film biography from 1996 about the life of Pablo Picasso from 1943 to 1953 from the point of view of his partner Françoise Gilot . The Director led James Ivory , the writer wrote Ruth Prawer Jhabvala for the book Picasso. A life (original title: Picasso ) by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington . The main roles played Natascha McElhone and Anthony Hopkins .
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In 1943 the young painter Françoise Gilot (* 1921) and her friend Geneviève visit the celebrated artist Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). While Geneviève wants to continue her classes in Montpellier , Picasso invites Gilot to visit him during this time. Gilot and Picasso begin a relationship. Her father is angry and beats her up, Gilot moves in with her grandmother.
Gilot is Picasso's partner for the next ten years and gives birth to two children, Claude and Paloma . She is his muse, but also paints her own pictures. Every now and then she meets the other women who played a role in his life like Dora Maar and Marie-Thérèse Walter with Picasso's daughter, Maya. Picasso spends two days with Marie-Thérèse every week. She is the only person who gets Picasso to cut his hair and toenails. They are kept locked up because Picasso fears that they could be used to put a curse on him.
In other scenes, Picasso is shown how he often holds out the waiting visitors in the anteroom and after his appearance plays off the gallery owners who are also waiting and then negotiating with him against each other.
Gilot and Picasso move into a house in the country. She meets his first wife, Olga Koklowa , whom he met in 1917 and then married. Gilot invites Marie-Thérèse and her child over so that Maya can meet her half-siblings. Françoise doesn't get any money from Picasso. She feeds herself and her children partly from the money her grandmother gives her and partly from what she earns as a painter.
In the early 1950s Picasso, a member of the Communist Party since 1944, went to socialist Poland . Although the visit should only last a few days, it turns into several weeks. Picasso's secretary, Jaime Sabartés , sends the same telegram every day. Françoise feels hurt and slaps Picasso on his return.
Gilot and Picasso visit Henri Matisse , the only person with whom Picasso - as he himself says - can converse.
When her grandmother dies, Françoise goes to Paris to look after the estate. Her father helps her. Picasso has been in town for some time; he is furious when he learns that Gilot came to Paris "without his permission". Françoise sarcastically throws at him that her grandmother died "without Picasso's permission". She decides to leave him. Picasso collapses and cries.
Gilot meets Dora Maar, who describes the atmosphere surrounding Picasso as "poisoned". She then says that her life without the painter is empty. Françoise is besieged by the media as the only woman who, rather than him, Picasso, left of her own free will.
After a while, Gilot visits Picasso, who already has a new lover, Jacqueline Roque . She is amused that this new woman addresses Picasso with deference. The painter asks her to open the bullfight on horseback , which is organized in honor of Picasso. Her voice from the off says during the scene of the ceremony that she is "grateful" that Picasso gave her the strength.
Reviews
James Berardinelli praised the cast of Pablo Picasso with Anthony Hopkins on ReelViews . Hopkins show Picasso's weaknesses in a way that makes it possible to like the character. Natascha McElhone has an "attractive face" and an "attractive figure", but she has difficulty depicting emotions. Berardinelli praised the portrayal of Julianne Moore. The film is "acceptable", but "far removed" from the earlier films by James Ivory and Ismail Merchant. None of the characters is shown "meaningfully".
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of October 4, 1996 that a dilemma of film biographies is that it is easy to fall into "chatter" instead of devoting oneself to "art". Many biographies would primarily show the private lives of the personalities who devoted most of their time to their work. The film shows a Pablo Picasso who first loves art and then himself. Anthony Hopkins has "unlimited acting opportunities". McElhone is a bad narrator; the language used in the film is "formal" and "stylized". Ebert praised the portrayals by Joss Ackland, Joan Plowright and Julianne Moore.
Daniel M. Kimmel wrote in Variety on September 9, 1996 that the film was "relatively modern". Through Françoise's point of view, he shows how “mortals” can meet a “genius” without being “cannibalized”. Apart from Henri Matisse, she is the only person in Picasso's environment who is not a slave to the painter. Only she of the five shown partners of Picasso possessed enough "intelligence" and "self-confidence" to withstand his "brilliance" and his "charm". Anthony Hopkins is Picasso "made of flesh and blood" ("full-blooded"). Kimmel also praised Natascha McElhone and the supporting actors Joan Plowright, Peter Eyre, Diane Venora and Julianne Moore.
backgrounds
The shooting took place in France , including in Paris . Production costs amounted to about 16 million US dollars . The film grossed around $ 2 million in US cinemas.
media
DVD release
- My husband Picasso . Warner Home Video 2006
Soundtrack
- Richard Robbins : Surviving Picasso. Original motion picture soundtrack . epic records / Sony 1996, sound carrier no. 486820-2 - Original recording of the film music under the direction of Harry Rabinowitz
literature
- Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington : Picasso. One life (original title: Picasso ). German by Andrea Galler. Focus Edition Diederichs. Hugendubel, Kreuzlingen and Munich 2006, 496 pages, ISBN 3-7205-2858-8
Web links
- Surviving Picasso in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My husband Picasso at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
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- ↑ Der Spiegel: You know the limits of my love. The womanizer and despiser Pablo Picasso in a new biography. Reviewed July 18, 1988
- ↑ Film review by James Berardinelli
- ^ Film review by Roger Ebert
- ^ Film review by Daniel M. Kimmel ( Memento of the original from October 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
