Directed by Simona Risi
Written by Sabina Fedeli, Did Gnocchi, Arianna Marelli
Original music by Emanuelle Matte
Produced by 3D Productions and Nexo Digtal with the support of the Musée National Picasso in Paris
PICASSO: A Rebel in Paris is an original portrait of the artist, outlining the contradictory nature of his character - at the same time generous and despotic, made of sunshine and shadow, often hidden behind a mask - and the duplicity of his behavior, even with the many women in his life. The dual nature of his character has sparked off a thorny debate: can you separate the artist from the man? Ever present in the background is the Paris of Picasso's day and age, it was also a city full of contradictions, which at the turn of the century, just as it was becoming an open, modern metropolis, it showed intolerance and xenophobia towards immigrants. And Picasso was an immigrant, an anarchist among anarchists in Montmartre, the suspicious type, someone to be wary of. Little-known aspects of the painter will emerge, revealing a side of him that historians and art historians are only now beginning to investigate, such as him being ‘an alien' in Paris.
The film includes analyses of works such as Les Desmoiselles d'Avignon and we will even discover why it is possible to effortlessly cast a 'queer' gaze on the artist's work. Mina Kavani will accompany us with readings of excerpts from the letters kept at the Picasso Museum and from books such as Picasso and His Friends by Fernande Olivier, Picasso by Gertrude Stein and My Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot. As well as interviews with art critics, curators, intellectuals and artists who help us gain access to Picasso's mind and understand why he is considered to be one of the greatest geniuses of the 20th century. Including Cécile Debray, President of the Musée National Picasso in Paris; Annie Cohen-Solal,author of Un étranger nommé Picasso (Picasso The Foreigner), as well as art historians Marie-Laure Bernadac and Eugenio Carmona Mato, stylist and designer Paul Smith, Head of the Picasso Studies Centre, Paris - Cécile Godefroy, French historian François Hartog, and artists Obiageli Okigbo and Guillermo Kuitca.
1hr 30mins/NR
Tickets $18 / Superstar Members $16