Final Portrait

Name: Final Portrait
Genre: Biography, Drama, Comedy
Released: March 23, 2018
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Armie Hammer, Attila G. Kerekes, Begona F. Martin, Clémence Poésy, Dolly Jagdeo

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Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: March 23, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Armie Hammer, Attila G. Kerekes, Begona F. Martin, Clémence Poésy, Dolly Jagdeo, Geoffrey Rush, James Faulkner, Kerry Shale, Martyn Mayger, Philippe Spall, Sylvie Testud, Tony Shalhoub

Summary: Final Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti, as seen through Lord’s eyes and revealing unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes the chaos of the artistic process. Set in 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, Lord isFinal Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti, as seen through Lord’s eyes and revealing unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes the chaos of the artistic process. Set in 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, Lord is asked by his friend, Giacometti, to sit for a portrait. The process, promises Giacometti, will take only a few days and so Lord agrees — ultimately wondering “how much longer can it go on like this?” [Sony Pictures Classics]… Expand

Director: Stanley Tucci

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, Comedy

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 min

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Kenneth Turan

Mar 22, 2018

Final Portrait is quietly involving, amusing in a shaggy-dog-story way and impeccably made. Read full review

Dana Schwartz

Mar 23, 2018

With its de-saturated grays and layered textures, Final Portrait itself is like a still portrait of Giacometti. You, as the viewer, are lucky just to get to spend time with these men during twenty or so days in their lives, privileged to be allowed inside Giacometti’s studio, watching the painting come together. Read full review

Empire Andrew Lowry

Sensibly dramatising a few representative days rather than Giacometti’s whole life, this may seem slight, but there’s a lot to dig into here — and Rush hasn’t had a showcase this good in years. Read full review

Peter Travers

Mar 21, 2018

In Final Portrait, art achieves a permanence that trumps an evanescent feast. What holds us through all the exasperating starts and stops is Rush, a live-wire actor of such effortless charisma that we’re drawn to his every utterance and gesture. Hammer, as a stand-in for the audience, can only stare in wonder as we do. Read full review

David Rooney

Feb 17, 2017

Amusing but slight, the small-scale film is elevated by a spirited characterization from Geoffrey Rush as mercurial artist — is there any other kind in movies? — Alberto Giacometti. Read full review

William Bibbiani

Mar 25, 2018

Without a strong guiding hand we’re left with a finely acted, but only adequate biopic, which brushes against greatness and then paints over it. Read full review

Oleg Ivanov

Mar 18, 2018

As seen through James Lord’s eyes, the dramas and passions on display throughout the film come off as melodramas and grotesqueries. Read full review

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justwibi

Sep 3, 2018

what a performance by Geoffrey Rush! i love the feel like watching a play in here. with an ensemble cast and good story telling.