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Freed from the slavishness of most authorized biography, the film makers try bold strokes.Full Review

Janet Maslin
The New York Times

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]Full Review

Jay Carr
Boston Globe

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]Full Review

Mike Clark
USA Today

An absorbing look at emotional tyranny, with a great screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.Full Review

Edward Guthmann
San Francisco Chronicle

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.Full Review

Owen Gleiberman
Entertainment Weekly
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