The Picasso Summer
The Picasso Summer is a 1969 drama directed by Serge Bourguignon and Robert Sallin, starring Albert Finney and Yvette Mimieux. The screenplay was written by Ray Bradbury using the pseudonym of Douglas Spaulding based upon his short story, In a Season of Calm Weather.
George Smith Albert Finney is a middle age San Francisco architect in midlife crisis and dissatisfied with the extent of his professional career, as his latest project is nothing more than a warehouse. After he and his wife Alice Yvette Mimieux attend a large party they go home and reassess their lives. George remembers how he used to admire Pablo Picasso so much when he was in college and suddenly proposes to his wife that they go to Europe and find Picasso. As they travel through numerous places in France and Spain they meet a number of interesting people but Georges obsessive quest begins to wear on Alice. They never actually find Picasso, and in a typical Hollywood ending, they walk off into the sunset after reaffirming their love for each other.While the basic plot is the same, the movie introduces several elements to stretch the short story into a featurelength movie. One change is the animated sequences where Picassos paintings come alive to show the vibrant nature of his work. George and Alice become separated and Alice happens to meet a painter who is now blind. Another addition involves Georges encounter with a bullfighter. A number of Picassos works deal with bullfighting, and a long sequence shows the bullfighter slowly goring a bull to death, as a way to explain Picassos fascination with the subject. ........
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