Modigliani

this movie is about a unique time and moment in Paris when all maestros convert to change our concepts and give to us a give new tendency in art, such a cubiscm. see consecuences how an artist can we affected by... Full review

i thought this movie was great. the relationships and the acting was outstanding. it was very tragic and deep. i liked the story because it wasnt really focused on painting i thought it was more focused on the relationship between his... Full review

I was really and deeply spellbound by the film. Completely unaware of the particular artist , I was fully informed and captured by the personality of Modigliani. Andy Garcia was exceptional in terms of acting and the direction of the film... Full review

Like some other reviewers, I didn't know anything about Modigliani's life prior to seeing this film. I have since researched his life online, and while there were minor liberties taken in the movie, it was nothing too egregious. For instance, the... Full review

that you'll feel like wasting your life, too. But don't; after all, you've just wasted roughly two hours on this movie.... Full review

Good acting by Andy Garcia, but overacting by most of the other actors. Focused too much on rivalry between Picasso and Modigliani without explaining what started the tension between the two artists. The flashback scene of his childhood did not tell... Full review

Andy Garcia did a splendid job in this film.This movie is one of the his masterpieces.I didn't know about Modigliani well.But I thought that his acting was Modigliani self.This movie is worthy to see over and over again.... Full review

that stretches the truth about Modigliani's life. Can't for one moment that Picasso felt Modi a rival. Movie never explained what the animoisty between the two was about. Biggest rip-off is the way the movie portrayed the cause Modi's death.... Full review

They tried to pull a Frida or a Girl with the pearl earing, but instead it looked like an amateur movie. Very badly directed.... Full review

OK....I'm an artist. BUT.... I'm not a huge fan of expressionism; therefore I went into this for the historical account only to be thrilled with the performances by Garcia as Modigliani and Zylberstein as Jeanne! I cannot express just how superb... Full review

the film itself, which short-shrifts Modigliani's bold painting in favor of melodramatic plotting and pretty pictures of Paris café society.....the movie is mostly ineffective in its depiction of their world..... ... Full Review

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. In an early scene, Modigliani publicly humiliates his archrival, Picasso, by waltzing drunkenly around a bistro with a rose in his teeth, plunking himself on Picasso's lap and sneering: "The future of art is in a woman's face. ... Full Review

A great Modernist gets conventionally romanticized in Mick Davis' 'Modigliani. Modigliani, "Modi" to friends, enjoyed smoking hash, drinking naked and brawling. ... Full Review

Still, when the movie focuses on Modigliani and the crazy world of the artists, agents, patrons, and other eccentrics that surround him, its often extremely enjoyable. Take, for example, a scene where Modigliani, Utrillo, and Soutine break into a butchers warehouse to steal a beef carcass Soutines been aching to paint. ... Full Review

I appreciate "Modigliani" as a heartfelt tribute.....But this scene exemplifies all that is artificial, unbelievable and dishonest about the movie.....This scene is interesting for its emphasis on Modigliani's exaggerations of faces....In this somewhat extravagant version of the artist, Garcia's great looks and natural magnetism wars with a character who suffered from immaturity and arrogance --....What is quite outstanding, and a major reason to endure the belabored movie.... ... Full Review

he Bridge of San Luis Ray put audiences and critics into comas, now comes Modigliani to molest them back to consciousness; in style and tone, the two films couldn't be any more incompatible, yet they're identically insufferable. ... Full Article

Set in Paris in the years following World War I, Modigliani tells the story of a tortured genius whose artistic rival was Pablo Picasso. Amedeo Modigliani (Andy Garcia) is a Jewish man who finds himself in a star-crossed romance with... ... Full Article

The Jewish Museum's fine Modigliani retrospective and all the essays in its catalog are geared to do one big thing. That this doesn't happen doesn't at all diminish the exhibition. ... Full Article

Una vez ms, como ocurre con todos los biopics, nos encontramos ante un filme que sirve de lucimiento a quien da vida al homenajeado, en esta ocasin, Andy Garca, que se involucra tambin como productor ejecutivo de la cinta. ... Full Article

Despite great talent, fame and fortune eluded the Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani during his brief life. A drunkard and a drug addict, Modigliani lived in squalor and died a relatively obscure figure of the Paris art scene of the early... ... Full Article

Modigliani, the much anticipated film about one of the world's most gifted artists, Amedeo Modigliani, will open July 8, in select local theatres for a special engagement at Regal South Beach 18/Miami, Sunrise Cinemas at Sunrise 11/Ft. ... Full Article