Surviving Picasso

Surviving Picasso is a 1996 film starring Anthony Hopkins as the famous painter Picasso. The film is seen through the eyes of his lover Francois Gilot (Natascha McElhone). Unfortunately, the producers were unable to get permission to show the works of Picasso in the film, so the film is more about the personal life than the works, and where they do show paintings, they are not of his more famous works. When Picasso is shown painting Guernica, the camera sits high above the painting, with the work only slightly visible.

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Anthony Hopkins - Picasso - Francois Gilot - Natascha McElhone - Guernica

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The film depicts several of the women who were important in Picasso's life, such as Olga Picasso (played by Jane Lapotaire), Dora Marr (played by Julianne Moore), and Marie-Thérèse (played by Susannah Harker)

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Olga Picasso - Jane Lapotaire - Dora Marr - Julianne Moore - Marie-Thérèse - Susannah Harker

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The film starts with Francois meeting Picasso in Paris during the German occupation of the city, where Picasso is complaining that people broke into his house and stole his linen, rather than his paintings. It shows Francois 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 of other people's feelings, firing his driver after a long period of service, and shown as a womanizer, saying that he can sleep with whoever he wants.

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Paris - German

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