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Surviving Picasso

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Surviving Picasso
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R,2hrs 3min
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September 20, 1996
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Synopsis: This unusual biography of the renowned Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is a Merchant-Ivory film. The team of director James Ivory, producer Ismail Merchant, and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has been responsible for many period dramas, including A Room with a View and Howard's End. The story of Picasso's remarkable misanthropy is told as experienced by his mistress Francoise Gilot (Natasha McElhone). Francoise was Picasso's lover from 1944 to 1954, and they had two children together, Claude and ... Full Synopsis
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Freed from the slavishness of most authorized biography, the film makers try bold strokes. Full Review
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Featured Cast
Pablo Picasso
Dora Maar
Henri Matisse
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