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Release Date: 1996

Cast: Dominic West, Jane Lapotaire, Peter Gerety, Bob Peck, Susannah Harker, Natascha McElhone, Dennis Boutsikaris, Anthony Hopkins, Joss Ackland, Laura Aikman, Julianne Moore, Diane Venora ...MORE

Cast: Dominic West, Jane Lapotaire, Peter Gerety, Bob Peck, Susannah Harker, Natascha McElhone, Dennis Boutsikaris, Anthony Hopkins, Joss Ackland, Laura Aikman, Julianne Moore, Diane Venora, Peter Eyre, Allegra Di Carpegna, Joan Plowright, Joseph Maher ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Romantic Drama, Biopic [Feature], Romance Film, Biographical Film, Drama Film

Surviving Picasso is a 1996 Merchant Ivory Film starring Anthony Hopkins as the painter Pablo Picasso. It was shot in Paris and southern France. It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant and David L. Wolper. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay was loosely based on the biography Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington. The film starts with a young woman named Françoise meeting Picasso in Paris during the Nazi occupation of the city, where Picasso is complaining that people broke into his house and stole his linen, rather than his paintings. It... MORE

Surviving Picasso is a 1996 Merchant Ivory Film starring Anthony Hopkins as the painter Pablo Picasso. It was shot in Paris and southern France. It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant and David L. Wolper. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay was loosely based on the biography Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington. The film starts with a young woman named Françoise meeting Picasso in Paris during the Nazi occupation of the city, where Picasso is complaining that people broke into his house and stole his linen, rather than his paintings. It shows Françoise being beaten by her father after telling him she wants to be a painter, rather than a lawyer. Picasso is shown as often not caring about other people's feelings, firing his driver after a long period of service, and as a womanizer, saying that he can sleep with whomever he wants. The film is seen through the eyes of his lover Françoise Gilot (Natascha McElhone). As the producers were unable to get permission, to show the works of Picasso in the film, the film is more about Picasso's personal life rather than his works, and where it does show paintings, they are not of his more LESS