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List Price: $26.99Amazon.com's Price: $14.49 You Save: $12.50 (46%)Prices subject to change.
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION
EAN: 0602498842478
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: UMVD/Visual Entertainment
Manufacturer: UMVD/Visual Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: UMVD/Visual Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 27, 2005
Running Time: 127 minutes
Sales Rank: 7747
Studio: UMVD/Visual Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 2004
Editorial Review:
Description:
Andy Garcia stars as the painter Modigliani, an Italian Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has 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 Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Modigliani and his dearest friend and rival Picasso believe that competitions are beneath true artists like themselves, but with the welfare of his child on the line, Modigliani signs up. Picasso follows suit and soon Paris is aflutter with excitement over the outcome.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - How does a blind man paint?
The question is asked of the artist, Modigliani, by his lover, Jeanne Hebuterne while the two ride a streetcar in Paris. Moreover, it is an appropriate one considering Modigliani's life. He sleepwalks through life mostly oblivious to opportunities for exaltation and abasement alike.
Although the artist is dying of TB, he continues to drink, smoke, and take opium. He is also blind to Jeanne's unhappiness. Their baby daughter is taken under order from Jeanne's father, by the French ... Read More
Rating: - Wow
Why this movie did not get a wider audience is a mystery.
It may not be the most historically acurate movie, How many are?, but it is beautifully shot, well acted, with a wonderful music score
Rating: - Modigliani: A Passionate Cinematic Ode to One Madly Passionate Artist
Director and writer Mick Davis, in a disclaimer at the beginning of the film MODIGLIANI, cautions viewers that it is a fictional work based loosely on the lives of its historical characters. What the disclaimer does not point out is how brilliantly the film captures the ironies of artistic achievement and the agonies of human failings that characterized the challenging lives of those same historical personages.
At the smoldering core of Modigliani is a love affair between ... Read More
Rating: - "When I know your soul, I will paint your eyes."
A contemporary and antagonist of his contemporary Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modigliani (1884-1920), an Italian Jew, makes his mark in pre-world war Paris, an avant garde painter caught up in the heady bohemian atmosphere of a turn-of-the-century city. Barely able to scrape a living together, Modigliani is a tortured soul with infinite curiosity, painting the visions in his head, certainly as groundbreaking as those of the larger-than-life Picasso. While Picasso is the darling of Paris, Amadeo's ... Read More
Rating:  - Dark life = dark movie
Andy García played Spanish poet Federico García Lorca so well; I had high hopes for his portrayal of Amadeo Modigliani. These hopes were only partly realized.
This movie needed tighter direction and García deserved a better supporting cast. Jeanne Hebutern was visually arresting and well acted. The rest of the cast were only so-so. I have seen the film once now and once was enough.
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