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Modigliani (2005)

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Reviews Counted:24

Fresh:1

Rotten:23

Average Rating:3.5/10

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

Rated: R [See Full Rating] for some language and drug use.

Runtime: 2 hrs 8 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:May 13, 2005 Limited

Synopsis: The story takes place in Paris in the years after the First World War. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne (Elsa Zylberstein), a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple have an... The story takes place in Paris in the years after the First World War. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne (Elsa Zylberstein), a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple have an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns. Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso (Omid Djalili) have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win. With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same. Emotionally-charged and bathed in absinthe green, MODIGLIANI is the decadent portrayal of this tortured genius, his debilitating addictions, and overwhelming passion. The film delivers nothing short of a deeply heartfelt tribute to the artist. -- © Official Site [More]

Starring: Andy Garcia, Omid Djalili, Elsa Zylberstein, Udo Kier

Starring: Andy Garcia, Omid Djalili, Elsa Zylberstein, Udo Kier, Hyppolite Girarot, Eva Herzigova, Miriam Margolyes

Director: Mick Davis

Director: Mick Davis
Screenwriter: Mick Davis
Producer: Philippe Martinez, Andre Djaoui, Stephanie Martinez-Campeau, Alan Latham
Studio: Innovation Film Group

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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.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
08/16/07
Raven Snook
Raven Snook
Time Out New York

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

Full Review Source: Boston Phoenix | comment Comment
10/29/05
Jeffrey Gantz
Jeffrey Gantz
Boston Phoenix

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

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
07/07/05
Rex Reed
Rex Reed
New York Observer
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No one expected a documentary, but serious art-history students may feel let down.

Full Review Source: New Times | comment Comment
07/07/05
Luke Y. Thompson
Luke Y. Thompson
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.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
07/01/05
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Modigliani is slow, shamefully cliched and disjointed as a cubist portrait.

Full Review Source: Newark Star-Ledger | comment Comment
07/01/05
Lisa Rose
Lisa Rose
Newark Star-Ledger
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Thanks to writer-director Mick Davis, the film, like its subject, dies young.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
07/01/05
Kyle Smith
Kyle Smith
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.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
07/01/05
Jami Bernard
Jami Bernard
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.

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
06/30/05
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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It ain't pretty but you have a choisa: See Modigliani or rent Derek Jarman's Caravaggio instead.

Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | comment Comment
06/28/05
Ed Gonzalez
Ed Gonzalez
Slant Magazine

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.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
06/28/05
R. Emmet Sweeney
R. Emmet Sweeney
Village Voice
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It is a tidy stack of snapshots, unencumbered by a point of view.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
05/19/05
Scott Brown
Scott Brown
Entertainment Weekly
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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.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
05/13/05
Bob Strauss
Bob Strauss
Los Angeles Daily News

Modigliani may have been noted for his drunken volatility and arrogance, but once you get a dozen years or so of Behind the Musics and E! True Hollywood Stories behind you, it's hard to get worked up about that sort of thing anymore.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
05/12/05
Carina Chocano
Carina Chocano
Los Angeles Times
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Mick Davis' prosaic art biopic Modigliani is a tiresome, hammy and ultimately annoying portrait of the artist as a young drunk.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
05/12/05
Kim Morgan
Kim Morgan
L.A. Weekly

Modigliani’s problems lie in its contentment with superficial clichés

Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
05/11/05
Matt McKillop
Matt McKillop
Filmcritic.com

A third of it is an episodically disordered string of scenes that coalesce into a narrative. The remaining two thirds is melodrama.

Full Review Source: Cinema Signals | comment Comment
05/04/05
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

Zylberstein aside, the film rarely comes to life.

Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | comment Comment
02/20/05
Shlomo Schwartzberg
Shlomo Schwartzberg
Boxoffice Magazine

Despite some nice shots of scenes converting into well-known art, Modigliani is plainly, badly directed.

Full Review Source: Miami Herald | comment Comment
02/04/05
Marta Barber
Marta Barber
Miami Herald

A fantastic reminder that the only thing worse than a bad movie is a bad, pretentious movie.

Full Review Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel | comment Comment
02/03/05
Phoebe Flowers
Phoebe Flowers
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
 
 
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