Life of Artists-A Curated section in the
International Film Festival of Kerala will add more colours to the well
designed prestigious film festival of Kerala which enters the 21 st edition on
9th December 2016 at Thiruvananthapuram ,the capital city of Kerala.
The films included in this section are :
Camille
Claudel
Director :
Bruno Nuytten / France / 175 mins
Biography of Camille Claudel. Sister of writer Paul
Claudel, her enthusiasm impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He
hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and
for Rodin. She also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to
get out of his shadow...
Fifi Howls
from Happiness / FIFI AZ KHOSHHALI ZOOZE MIKESHAD
Director:
Mitra Farahani / USA, Iran, France / 96 mins
A documentary on provocative artist Bahman Mohassess. Explore provocative artist Bahman Mohassess (1931–2010), the so-called “Persian Picasso,” whose acclaimed paintings and sculptures dominated pre-revolutionary Iran. Irreverent and uncompromising, a gay man in a hostile world, Mohassess was revered by elites in the art scene and praised as a national icon, only to be censored later on by an oppressive regime. Known for his iconoclastic art as well as his scathing declarations, Mohasses abandoned the country over 30 years ago for a simple, secluded life in Rome, where the filmmakers enticed him to reflect upon his life.
Modigliani
of Montparnasse / LES AMANTS DE MONTPARNASSE
Director:
Jacques Becker / France, Italy / 108 mins
“Despite its alternative title (Montparnasse 19), Les Amants de Montparnasse (1958) actually charts the last years of Modigliani’s life
(from late 1916 to 1920), and includes many salient “facts” of that life,
including the artist’s dependence on the endlessly patient Théo Van Gogh figure
Leopold “Zboro” Zborowski (Gérard Séty); the relationships with his most
important muses Beatrice Hastings (Lilli Palmer), an English aristocrat and
poet, and Jeanne Hébuterne (Anouk Aimée), a quiet, seemingly passive bourgeois
and art student; his drug addiction and alcoholism; the fiasco of the only solo
exhibition in his lifetime, where a nude displayed in the window of the Galerie
Berthe Weill falls foul of the police, and negligible sales are made (1); and
Modigliani’s agonising death from tuberculosis.”
Van Gogh
Director:
Maurice Pialat / France / 158 mins
Avoiding
melodrama, over-analysis, and misunderstood-artist clichés, Pialat concentrates
on the last weeks of Van Gogh’s life with a combination of painterly beauty and
documentary-like immediacy. Jacques Dutronc’s César-winning lead performance is
uncompromisingly unsentimental, but the film is equally concerned with vivid
portrayals of those around Van Gogh: brother Theo, Theo’s wife Jo, the
provincial patron Dr. Gachet, and especially Gachet’s daughter Marguerite,
depicted not as a simpering innocent but as a sexually assertive young woman
whose submerged revolt against bourgeois morality mirrors and challenges Van
Gogh’s own. In French with English subtitles. Archival 35mm print courtesy of the
Institut français and Cohen Media Group. (MR)
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