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Release Date: 1996

Cast: Joan Plowright, Laura Aikman, Bob Peck, Jane Lapotaire, Joss Ackland, Anthony Hopkins, Diane Venora, Joseph Maher, Julianne Moore, Dominic West, Natascha McElhone, Allegra Di Carpegna ...MORE

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

Categories: Movies, Romantic drama, Biographical film, Romance Film, Biopic [feature]

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