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Mr. Turner
Why this pick
Like Final Portrait, it treats artistic labour as a stubborn, physical daily practice, observing a brilliant painter through tactile period detail, dry humour, and an unsentimental intimacy.
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MOVIE2017 1h 30m GBR
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Why this pick
A concentrated, sensory portrait of an artist’s work and isolation, with expressive visuals and a compassionate focus on the uneasy gap between inner vision and ordinary life.
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The White Ribbon
Why this pick
Its exacting monochrome compositions, period world, and calmly unsettling observation offer the same pleasure in faces, gestures, and social detail, though with a far more ominous undertow.
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The Painter and the Thief
Why this pick
This intimate documentary finds an unlikely artist-subject relationship evolving in real time, sharing Final Portrait’s fascination with portraiture, creative vulnerability, and the strange negotiations between two people.
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My Dinner with Andre
Why this pick
For the pleasure of two sharply contrasting men testing friendship through talk: it is patient, witty, and alive to intellectual vanity, generosity, and small shifts in connection.
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01 / THE STORY
The search for perfection never ends
In 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, the American writer and art-lover James Lord is asked by his friend, the world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti, to sit for a portrait. The process, Giacometti assures Lord, will take only a few days. Flattered and intrigued, Lord agrees. So begins not only the story of a touching a offbeat friendship, but, seen through the eyes of Lord, a uniquely revealing insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and, at times, downright chaos of the artistic process.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Geoffrey Rush
Alberto Giacometti
Armie Hammer
James Lord
Clémence Poésy
Caroline
Tony Shalhoub
Diego Giacometti
Sylvie Testud
Annette Giacometti
James Faulkner
Pierre Matisse
Kerry Shale
Claude Martineau
Annabel Mullion
Anne-Marie Frenaud