At the cinema the docu-film Picasso. A Rebel in Paris. November 27, 28 and 29 only

On November 27, 28 and 29, 2023, the docu-film Picasso. A Rebel in Paris. Story of a Life and a Museum, produced by 3D Productions and Nexo Digital with the support of the Musée National Picasso in Paris. Made on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso (Malaga, 1881 - Mougins, 1973), the docufilm-directed by Simona Risi on a subject by Didi Gnocchi and Sabina Fedeli, who also signed the screenplay with Arianna Marelli-wants to place at the center of the story the path of a young emigrant, poor but destined to become one of the most important icons of the 20th century. In a continuous move in and out of the Picasso Museum in Paris, the largest existing collection dedicated to the painter with six thousand masterpieces and two hundred thousand pieces of archival materials, the film follows Picasso in the Parisian neighborhoods where he lived, from the unheated ateliers of his early days to the large bourgeois apartments, those in which his success began: a material and intellectual journey to understand his work and spirit. It is indeed dawn on a morning in 1901 when Picasso arrives in Paris. His future begins that very day, in that city. Picasso would spend almost his entire life in Paris, and yet, in the French capital, he would often feel like a foreigner, an exile. This is the starting point of the docu-film.

Guiding viewers on this journey will be Mina Kavani, an Iranian actress who stars in Jafar Panahi’s No Bears, a dissident director who won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2022. Mina Kavani will accompany the audience with readings of excerpts from letters preserved at the Picasso Museum and from volumes such as Picasso and His Friends by Fernande Olivier, Picasso by Gertude Stein, and My Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot. Complementing the film are interviews with art critics, curators, intellectuals and artists: among them, Musée national Picasso Paris President Cécile Debray, historian and author of the volume Picasso. A Stranger’s Life Annie Cohen-Solal, art historians Marie-Laure Bernadac and Eugenio Carmona Mato, fashion designer and stylist Paul Smith, Center for Picasso Studies Manager Cécile Godefroy, French historian François Hartog, and artists Obiageli Okigbo and Guillermo Kuitca.

The film’s original music is by Emanuele Matte.

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At the cinema the docu-film Picasso. A Rebel in Paris. November 27, 28 and 29 only

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