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Modigliani (2004)

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Average Rating: 3.5/10
Reviews Counted: 24
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 23

Nearly everyone is miscast in this disjointed and slow-moving portrait of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.

10

Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 1 | Rotten: 9

Nearly everyone is miscast in this disjointed and slow-moving portrait of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani.

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A gifted artist wages a personal war against his demons as well as a world that refuses to accept his creative vision in this biographical drama based on the true story of Amedeo Modigliani. Modigliani (Andy Garcia) was an Italian Jew who was living in Paris in the 1910s, when the city's bohemian community was in full flower. While Modigliani was a uniquely gifted painter and sculptor, his friend and rival Pablo Picasso (Omid Djalili) had already found fame and fortune; Modigliani's work had yet

R, 2 hr. 6 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Mick Davis

Sep 27, 2005

Innovation Film Group

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All Critics (25) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (25) | DVD (8)

A film of vitality, with imagery as haunting and romantic as it is intense.

July 7, 2005 Comment
New York Observer
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Modigliani is slow, shamefully cliched and disjointed as a cubist portrait.

July 1, 2005 Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | Comment
Newark Star-Ledger
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Thanks to writer-director Mick Davis, the film, like its subject, dies young.

July 1, 2005 Comment
New York Post
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It's hard to take this oddball movie seriously, right down to the undisguised streetwise-American accent of Andy Garcia as the Italian Jew Amedeo Modigliani.

July 1, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Daily News | Comment
New York Daily News
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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.

June 30, 2005 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
New York Times
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Sadly, instead of situating the l'amour fou in the artistic ferment of the period (1917-1920), Davis twists the period to fit the story.

June 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Village Voice | Comment
Village Voice
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Instead of trying to provide insight into this genius's debilitating madness, Davis prefers to wallow in incoherent and clichéd misery, punctuated by poetically oblique imagery.

August 16, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

Just another artistic sacrifice to life's ironies, cruelties, and bad filmmakers.

October 29, 2005 Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | Comment
Boston Phoenix

...drenched in atmosphere and beautifully composed...but not particularly moving or absorbing.

October 11, 2005 Comment
Reel.com

Be prepared to get out the hankies.

October 10, 2005 Full Review Source: Now Playing Magazine | Comment

Fundamentally crippled by the casting of Andy Garcia in the kind of leading role that demands someone with a more volcanic, larger-than-life presence to fill it.

September 27, 2005 Full Review Source: FilmStew.com | Comment

No one expected a documentary, but serious art-history students may feel let down.

July 7, 2005 Full Review Source: New Times | Comment
New Times

The real-life Modigliani did indeed live a short, tragic life, but this factually inaccurate, plodding film makes it feel twice as long.

July 1, 2005 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

It ain't pretty but you have a choisa: See Modigliani or rent Derek Jarman's Caravaggio instead.

June 28, 2005 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

Director Mick Davis shows little if any imagination in presenting the troubled genius or the remarkable Montparnasse art scene of the World War I era, and that's the real bummer.

May 13, 2005 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | Comment
Los Angeles Daily News

Mick Davis' prosaic art biopic Modigliani is a tiresome, hammy and ultimately annoying portrait of the artist as a young drunk.

May 12, 2005 Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | Comment
L.A. Weekly
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Audience Reviews for Modigliani

A passionate performance by Andy Garcia** for those of you out there who are artists/creative by nature...this will remind you that: you don't Just make arT... you must liVe it** This will move you** It is based on the characters of life and art that were the 20th Century/ modern Masters of ArT.

June 9, 2007
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AngeLO Pizarro

wouldnt be so bad if it werent a made up story about a real painter full of fake paintings posing to be his.

April 23, 2007

    1. Amedeo Modigliani: He was not an entertainer for the bored but an austraunaught of the unknown.
    – Submitted by Cassie Rey B (7 months ago)

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