Modigliani

Name: Modigliani
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: May 13, 2005
Duration: 128 min
Rating: 25

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Innovation Film Group (IFG) | Release Date: May 13, 2005 | R

Summary: This film portrays the untold story of the bitter rivalry between Modigliani and Picasso. Two men whose envy of each other is fuelled by their brilliance, their arrogance, their passions. (Bauer Martinez Studios)

Director: Mick Davis

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 128 min

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Kirk Honeycutt

Garcia has his moments as a wild man but the script never really allows him to plumb the artist's emotional depths. Read full review

Lisa Nesselson

Can't overcome a didactic script. Read full review

Scott Brown

The lushness of a Modigliani is largely absent from Modigliani. Read full review

Kim Morgan

A tiresome, hammy and ultimately annoying portrait of the artist as a young drunk. Read full review

Kyle Smith

An Iranian comedian named Omad Djalili plays Picasso, that sexually combustible Spanish bull, with all the earth-shaking allure of, say, Andy Richter. Read full review

Carina Chocano

Deeply silly and tendentious. Read full review

Stephen Holden

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. Read full review

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Lanique

Jan 17, 2006

Anything incredible gotta have a little repulse, otherwise it'll turn boring. For this particular case the movie stands alone, here a repulse would be the critics' reviews.

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OdessaF.

Oct 6, 2005

Great movie!!! Excellent performances by Andy Garcia and rest of the cast. This movie really captures the spirits of Paris around that time. A beautiful and tragic love story too! Don't miss it. It is now out on DVD.

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StephaneeH.

Oct 6, 2005

I feel the critics were very wronge! I felt it was a wonderful movie and great preformances that left me wanting for more.

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Lostkat

Aug 17, 2010

This is a film that, from what I gather, the critics hated with passion. I agree that Modigliani as a film has major flaws. Although for the most part the performance of the actors is decent, and in some instances remarkable, by moments the film drifts into melodrama. That was particularlyThis is a film that, from what I gather, the critics hated with passion. I agree that Modigliani as a film has major flaws. Although for the most part the performance of the actors is decent, and in some instances remarkable, by moments the film drifts into melodrama. That was particularly so when the camera visits the studio of the painters competing for the Salon des artists prize. This was a dramatically critical moment for the narrative because it depicts the serenity of an artist who otherwise was a talented man drifting rapidly into alcoholism and self-destructive behavior. Unfortunately, at a critical moment when the director failed in imparting adequate acting directions to the other actors, forcing them to over play the stress of the characters they were representing. This scene accounts for the film's major failure. A more sober performance by the actors would have produced the wonderful dramatic contrasting effect sought by a beautiful musical soundtrack. Yet, and in spite of its failures, the film was able to recover much of its luster. The last scene saved the film from being an abject failure. I am referring to the scene when, once concluded Modigliani's funeral, Picasso - Amadeo Modigliani's nemesis - noted the child. This scene, as the once in the bar depicting Modiglianiâ… Expand

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NicolaM.

Oct 10, 2005

Simply an atrocious movie, painful to watch. Woefully overacted, with more hams than a butcher shop. Picasso was played by Bud Abbot. Really a bad bad bad movie.

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EarlM.

Mar 25, 2006

Tiresome, poor representation of the artist's life--do not waste your time!

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FrenchieY.

Apr 1, 2007

Simply an insult to all poets, painters and lovers, a dull, overacted abortion!

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