DOCUMENTARY
ITALY · 2022
LANGUAGE: ITALIAN
COLOR · 90 MIN.
To celebrate the centenary of Modigliani's death, this documentary explores the life and work of Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920), an avant-garde painter who became a classic contemporary artist loved and imitated around the world. Born in Livorno, Tuscany, he lived a short and tormented life, narrated here from an original point of view, that of his young common-law wife, Jeanne Hébuterne, who committed suicide two days after his death. Jeanne, along with the aspiring Russian poet Anna Achmatova, and the English journalist Beatrice Hastings were the women whose faces became icons of his art. The action of the documentary takes in the Albertina Museum in Vienna, the City Museum in Livorno, the National Gallery of Art in Washington and the great museums and art collections of Paris.
