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Critics Consensus: Final Portrait finds writer-director Stanley Tucci patiently telling a quietly absorbing story, brought to life by a talented ensemble led by Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer.
Critic Consensus: Final Portrait finds writer-director Stanley Tucci patiently telling a quietly absorbing story, brought to life by a talented ensemble led by Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer.
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It's always interesting to ask artists how they know their work is finished. Whatever else goes on this "Final Portrait," Tucci captures that struggle perfectly.
Working from his own screenplay, Stanley Tucci (best known as an actor) delivers a character study that's low on character development.
This movie is, literally, about watching paint dry - but Tucci and the cast find a world of detail and nuance.
The rare biopic of a visual artist that considers the dilemma of the art more seriously than it considers the drama of the life.
The story doesn't amount to much more than a hill of beans but Tucci manages to make his rumination on the life of an artist slyly amusing and believable.
We get a vivid image of Giacometti, but after a time the film leaves us starving for some variety, too.
Writer-director Stanley Tucci clearly had a vision and the skills necessary to tell this story, along with actors who are completely captivating as they give their all. But without something to say, the result is about as interesting as a blank canvas.
Tucci's ideas, together with Rush's acting abilities, were enough to minimally shape the artist, but this biographical drama has no place among the best I've seen lately.
Under the watchful eye of director Stanley Tucci, Final Portrait is filled with an undercurrent of humor throughout -- crisply paced, allowing its two lead actors the chance to really sink into their respective roles.
The actors are wonderful.
Stop me if you've heard this one before (no, seriously. stop me). A depraved creative genius is on a quest to find artistic value in living, treating everyone around 'him' like sh*t in the process.
The film is a complicated one, but the script is relatively sparse and meandering. As such, the pacing feels very slow.
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