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| Surviving PicassoSynopsis: She is Francoise Gilot (McElhone, Guy X, Ladies In Lavender), a beautiful art student. He is the fabled and charismatic artist, Pablo Picasso (Academy Award and Emmy Award winner Hopkins, Proof, Alexander). This colorful canvas reveals the true story of their affair; of how an ambitious young woman lived, loved, and fought with an egotistical genius forty years her senior. Francoise soon learns of the other women in Picasso's life, including Dora Maar (Moore, Trust The Man, The Forgotten) deeply scarred by her affair with the artist. But will Francoise's love for herself be strong enough to grasp her only chance of surviving Picasso? Anthony Hopkins paints a complex portrait of the artist in this stunningly mounted and dramatically compelling film produced and directed by the Oscar-winning Merchant-Ivory team. Though the real Francoise did pen an autobiography, Merchant-Ivory could not gain the rights to it and so they drew their information from the biography "Picasso; Creator and Destroyer" by Arianna Huffington. |
