Was this review helpful? One day his wife (Claudia Cardinale) brings home a young woman she sees in the streets. 6 out of 8 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Artist transforms models into ‘twisted imitations’ of famous figures from Donald Trump to Tarantino, Bowie, Zuckerberg and more.
Belonging to this vein,"L'artiste et son modèle" ("The Artist and the Model" in the USA), the Spanish director's latest effort, not only displays this newly acquired maturity but it is even downright close to perfection. Carrière is consequently into his 80s already and same goes for the lead actor here: Jean Rochefort. The Artist and the Model (2012) This is a movie, a poem, about the existence of beauty and meaning in art, and in the life of an artist.
RobChapman. Her name is Merce (Aida Folch) and she is on the run from Franco’s army. New Artist Models from Epiphone - Jeff Waters, Bjorne Gelotte & Tommy Thayer. Splendid film from the Academy Award winning director of ¨Belle Epoque¨ and ¨Chico and Rita¨ . Finally, there's this said sculptor, his Nazi biographer, and the kraut's adjutant--just try to figure out how this trio fits together. A gentle and fully realised poem that centres around the life of a french sculptor looking for inspiration during the Nazi occupation of France, and finds it with young-refugee Mercé, who agrees to model for him. Several years have passed since the 80 year old artist Marc Cros (Jean Rochfort) stopped sculpting. "El artista y la modelo" is writer-director Fernando Trueba's newest project and his return to live action after a thoroughly successful trip into the world of animation, which brought him his first Academy Award nomination for "Chico & Rita" two years ago. 1 out of 1 found this helpful.
0 out of 0 found this helpful. Marc soon understands that the girl, who agrees to pose for him, inspires him and gives life . Sometimes a film tackles a particular subject so exhaustively that there scarcely seems to be any point in subsequent movies about it. One day, Léa gives shelter to a marvelous young Spanish political refugee called Mercè (Aida Folch) . With "The Artist and the Model", Trueba has not made just another movie, but achieved a real work of art that touches us deeply, building on a very simple but all the more powerful story: Marc, an elderly sculptor living in the heart of nature, far from the madding war (I mean World War II), finds a new muse in the (charming) person of a young Spanish refugee and undertakes the last (and certainly the most important) work of his life. He plays a sculptor who finds a new model that inspires him to create one more sculpture, possibly his masterpiece. In an occupied France, not far away from the Spanish border, a famous old sculptor who is tired of life and wars finds the desire to work on his last masterpiece when a beautiful young Spanish girl comes knocking after escaping a refugee camp in the South of France. In German occupied France of 1943, an elderly sculptor and his wife live in a small town close to the Spanish border. Artist's one-time nude model, who's aged into a different perspective, and her relationship with her husband's latest unclothed muse. Far superior is the similarly themed French film “Renoir,” which also centered on the relationship between an elderly artist and his muse/model. ... director Joseph Guzman's controversial 2010 consideration of similar themes to those dealt with by Fernando Trueba in THE ARTIST AND THE MODEL, the latter movie tries its best, mixing together nude models, Nazis, and at least one gun key to its plot. I went to see this movie based on the premise that its chief theme concerned an older man, the artist Marc Clos (Jean Rochefort), who instills his wisdom of life to a young woman--his model Merce (Aida Folch), a young Catalan woman--before his life is over. The black and white cinematography hearkens back to an earlier time, and it seemed appropriate for the era the story was set in. 0 out of 0 found this helpful. Anthonyhenderson. While she is there, she models for what will be the last work by Cros. He seems to have reached the end of his life and of his art . The couple offer to shelter her in the sculptor’s workshop. 25:05. Where it fails is when it specifies its ideas. Luckily that's where this movie tries to go. The arrival of the young girl inspires the artist to once again to draw and develop his artistic skills . One review here called this film "bleak". Was this review helpful? I really liked the film and being about a sculptor was interesting to me since I like art. Rochefort was great in the lead. ), without the support of a musical score (but what an enhancement of the sounds produced by nature, by objects moving, by human voices!).
In German occupied France of 1943, an elderly sculptor and his wife live in a small town close to the Spanish border. Though mostly it is not sexualized nudity (if you dismiss a bit of voyeurism that will be going on at some point).
I liked him the Hairdressers Husband also amongst other films. 6 out of 7 found this helpful.
Not knowing anything about this film, I thought it was made in the Fifties as I was watching it. But for some time (particularly since "Chico & Rita" in 2010), Trueba's cinema, while still celebrating woman and her beauty, has become more and more profound, something art lovers will certainly not complain about. Now at the top of his art, the formerly superficial director has become able to describe life and nothing else, without relying on any easy plot twist or cinematic effect, without the obvious advantages of color (but what a luminous black and white cinematography! Good scenery around the chateaux and countryside. 7 out of 12 found this helpful. And this is not just another story either, but one told with oozing sincerity and total commitment. Was this review helpful? The more obtuse, abstract, and indirect it is the better.