Surviving Picasso

Surviving Picasso is a 1996 Merchant Ivory film starring Anthony Hopkins as the famous painter Pablo Picasso. It was directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant and David L. Wolper. Ruth Prawer Jhabvalas screenplay was loosely based on the biography Picasso Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington.

The film is seen through the eyes of his lover Franoise Gilot Natascha McElhone. As the producers were unable to get permission, to show the works of Picasso in the film, the film is more about Picassos personal life rather than his works, and where it does 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.The film depicts several of the women who were important in Picassos life, such as Olga Khokhlova played by Jane Lapotaire, Dora Maar played by Julianne Moore, MarieThrse Walter played by Susannah Harker, and Jacqueline Roque played by Diane Venora. ........

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