Gérard Philipe
Amedeo Modigliani
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Montparnasse 19 (French: Les Amants de Montparnasse, lit. 'The Lovers of Montparnasse') is a 1958 French-Italian drama film directed and co-written by Jacques Becker, partially based on the last years of the life of Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, who worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse area of Paris.
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Montparnasse 19. Summaries. About the last years of the life of the great artist Modigliani. A poor Italian artist suffering from alcoholism and opium addiction falls in love with Jeanne, a girl from a wealthy family whose parents are categorically against it. Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani.
Runtime: 108 min. Aka: The Lovers of Montparnasse ; Les amants de Montparnasse ; Hero of Montmatre ; Heroes in White ; Modigliani of Montparnasse. An in-depth review of the film Montparnasse 19 (1958), aka The Lovers of Montparnasse, directed by Jacques Becker, featuring Gerard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani.
- Jacques Becker
France, Italy, 1958. Drama, Biography. 108. Synopsis. The film chronicles the last days of the alcoholic, tubercular artist Amedeo Modigliani in Montparnasse, Paris. It charts his relationships with three women: a masochistic British journalist, a kindly bistro owner, and a young innocent who models for some of his most famous paintings ...
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Montparnasse 19 stands as an evocative testament to the eternal tug-of-war between art and life. Like Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast and Charles Aznavour's La Bohème, it captures the essence of fleeting moments, of laughter in the face of adversity, and the melancholy that accompanies the passage of time.
Jan 19, 2019 · Montparnasse 19 remains a divisive film for Becker fans, with some declaring the film unable to escape its compromised origins and overpowered by the aura of its tragic star. Among the film’s admirers is Jean-Luc Godard who singled out Becker’s film as a crucial work about the artistic process.
