The Picasso Look ( Le regard Picasso )

The Picasso Look (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Le regard Picasso
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Venice Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Mono )
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Mono )
German ( Mono )
Portuguese ( Mono )
Russian ( Mono )
Spanish ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
France ( PAL/NTSC/Region 0 )

Running Time:
64 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Black & White
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1967 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )

Directed By:
Nelly Kaplan

Written By:
Nelly Kaplan

Actors:
Jacques Paoli ..... Récitant / Narrator

Synopsis:

This documentary was released to coincide with an art exhibit celebrating the 85th birthday of Pablo Picasso. The feature concentrates on more recent paintings, drawings, and sculptures by the internationally renowned artist. Jacques Paoli narrates and is careful to avoid categorizing or critiquing Picasso's work. He allows the works to speak for themselves.

A same vision across three-quarters of a century of uninterrupted creation; how can you take inventory of that?' Nelly Kaplan, a writer and unavoidable figure in French films (to whom we owe La Fiancée du pirate, Charles et Lucie…) asked that very question about the work of Picasso. She provided her own answer in the form of a magnificent medium-length film that received the Golden Lion at the 1967 Venice Film Festival. The style of her film, at once fluid (in its use of tracking-shots and zooms) and vigorous (lighting-effects, editing…) stayed intimately as close as possible to the great Spanish master's expressive contours and continually renewed audacities of form. This first film is now available to the public again through Frémeaux & Associés, together with a second short-film entitled A la source, la Femme Aimée, a film where the director, full of complicity, takes a look at the erotic drawings of André Masson, whose bodylines transfixed by the dizzy vertiges d'Eros have an expressiveness that sometimes doesn't exclude humour. The reissue of these cinematographic works provides the opportunity for a fresh overview of the work of two of the greatest representatives of desire in painting, two artists who could, as Arthur Rimbaud wrote (quoted by Nelly Kaplan in her epigraph), 'reproduce sentiments thanks to lines, colours and diagrams […] simplified or tamed. True magic.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 03 November, 2015.