Surviving Picasso

This unusual biography of the renowned Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is told as experienced by his mistress Francoise Gilot. Francoise was Picasso's lover from 1944 to 1954, and they had two children together, Claude and Paloma. The film shows Picasso as a notorious womanizer, with flashbacks revealing his relationships with his wife Olga, the artist Dora Marr, and Marie-Therese Walter, an earthy type who sees the artist only on Sundays. Anthony Hopkins powerfully portrays Picasso as an artistic genius with an appalling habit of using and abusing women. He not only cheats on his wife but two-ti... Číst dále