Surviving Picasso Critic Reviews
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Freed from the slavishness of most authorized biography, the film makers try bold strokes.Read the full review
Surviving Picasso is always intelligent and often entertaining, even when it perhaps inevitably takes on the character of an upmarket wax museum. [4 Oct 1996]Read the full review
Obviously armed with more gangster-of-love opportunities playing Pablo Picasso than he had playing Richard Nixon, Anthony Hopkins ends up opting here for wit over full-blooded passion, but it proves to be enough. [23 Sep 1996]Read the full review
An absorbing look at emotional tyranny, with a great screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.Read the full review
Cool, assured, emotionally remote, Merchant Ivory's Surviving Picasso is never less than watchable, but it's also a cinematic paradox, a movie that works to capture Picasso from every angle yet somehow misses the fire in his belly.Read the full review
Surviving Picasso is quite well made and easy enough to watch, but it's not noticeably challenging or involving.Read the full review
Latest Merchant Ivory production (produced with David Wolper) is a winner in spite of relatively modern look to the film.Read the full review
The movie breaks down into anecdotes that don't flow or build, and everything is narrated by the Gilot character.Read the full review
Producer Ismail Merchant, director James Ivory and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala bring the customary polish, but no pizzazz, to this simplistic portrait of the artist as a dirty old man.Read the full review
Not to put too fine a point on it, Surviving Picasso is merely the worst movie ever made about a painter; worse movies have been made on other subjects, though none comes immediately to mind. [20 Sep 1996]Read the full review
