The Adventures of Picasso

The Adventures of Picasso Swedish Picassos ventyr is a 1978 Swedish comedy film directed by Tage Danielsson, starring Gsta Ekman, as the famous painter. The film had the tagline Tusen krleksfulla lgner av Hans Alfredson och Tage Danielsson A thousand loving lies by Hans Alfredson and Tage Danielsson. At the 14th Guldbagge Awards the film won the award for Best Film.

The film is very loosely based on Pablo Picassos life and death, narrated by Toivo Pawlo, who introduces himself as Elsa Beskow. It opens with a quote by Picasso himself Art is a lie that leads us closer to the truth. The story starts with Picassos birth in Mlaga, Spain. His father, Don Jose Hans Alfredson, is an artist and discovers early his sons talent when the young boy makes a sculpture of Don Jose with his food. When Pablo is old enough and now portrayed by Gsta Ekman his father takes him to Madrid, so that Pablo can study art. On their way, they encounter two robbers who try to hurt a beautiful girl named Dolores Lena Olin. After a slapstick number in which Picasso defeats the two attackers, she gives him a bottle of paint, containing a djinn. With the paint from that bottle he signs all his paintings. At the academy of art Pablos talent is praised and awarded. When he returns home with a portrait of his mother Dona Maria Margaretha Krook, he is equally praised there. Unfortunately, their happiness is ruined when Don Jose suddenly dies or so it seems. At the funeral it turns out hes actually still alive. Despite this, Dona Maria keeps ignoring him with the words Idioto, t es muerta.Pablo leaves for Paris, but has a hard time selling any of his paintings. One day his father comes to visit him, bringing the sad news that Dona Maria is dead. When Don Jose starts to eat an apple that Pablo used as a reference for his painting, Picasso starts to draw faster, still using the apple as reference. The result is the birth of cubism. This new style, however, is very hard to sell until Pablos father gets an idea from a fishing rod. He lowers the painting down from a window during a vernissage. The overall reaction is negative, with comments like Scandal, Merde, Oh, mon dieu and piss. One of the guests however, finds the picture both charming and marvelous and declares that she wants to buy it. This lady is none other than the great writer Gertrude Stein Bernard Cribbi

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