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Surviving Picasso is a american film of genre Drama directed by James Ivory released in USA on 4 september 1996 with Anthony Hopkins
Surviving Picasso (1996)
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Add to a movie listSurviving Picasso is a 1996 Merchant Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins as the famous painter Pablo Picasso. 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.
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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.Actors
Anthony Hopkins
(Pablo Picasso)
Natascha McElhone
(Françoise Gilot)
Julianne Moore
(Dora Maar)
Joss Ackland
(Henri Matisse)
Peter Eyre
(Sabartes)
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