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The film is seen through the eyes of his lover Françoise Gilot ( Natascha McElhone ). Unfortunately, the producers were unable to get permission to show the works of Picasso in the film, so the film is more about the personal life than the works, and where it does show paintings, they are not of his more famous works. When Picasso is shown painting '' Guernica '', the camera sits high above the painting, with the work only slightly visible. The film depicts several of the women who were important in Picasso's life, such as Olga Picasso (played by Jane Lapotaire ), Dora Maar (played by Julianne Moore ), and Marie-Thérèse Walter (played by Susannah Harker ). The film starts with Françoise meeting Picasso in Paris during the German occupation of the city, where Picasso is complaining that people broke into his house and stole his linen, rather than his paintings. It shows Françoise being beaten by her father after telling him she wants to be a painter, rather than a lawyer. Picasso is shown as often not caring about other people's feelings, firing his driver after a long period of service, and as a womanizer, saying that he can sleep with whomever he wants. EXTERNAL LINK |
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