Modigliani

Modigliani is an amazing movie that describes the late life of the talented Italian artist Modigliani. Modigliani has a terrible childhood when his family gets bankrupt, and he drinks and has drugs during most of his lifetime. Moreover, Mody is a genius in art, but he has a bad temper. He never sells his paintings in good price so that he lives a poor life throughout his life. He only has a one-man show during his life, but it is shut down by the local police because of nudity in the paintings. The majority of his paintings are portraits, most of which are naked woman, and the strangest thing in his portraits is that the figures are always closing their eyes. Furthermore, the movie focuses on the competition between Mody and Picasso. Unlike Mody, Picasso is already a well-known artist at that time, but Mody tries his best to mock at Picasso. Meanwhile, the movie also describes the love of Mody and Jeanne. Jeanne’s father doesn’t want Jeanne to be with Mody, and he sends their daughter away. Mody signs up for the art competition in order to get the prize money and get his daughter back, and Picasso accepts Mody’s challenge and signs up for the competition too. At last, Mody wins the competition with a masterpiece, Jeanne’s portrait with beautiful eyes, but he is beaten to death because he doesn’t pay for the drinks in the bar. The other day, Jeanne jumps out of the window and kills herself and her unborn baby.
The movie significantly shows the personality of Modigliani and the style of his artworks. Modigliani is always alone despite that he has few friends and some women. He drinks to get rid of his terrible memory of his childhood, and he has drugs to relieve the pain from his screwed life. He is talented, but he is poor. Most of his paintings are naked women lying on couches, and most figures in his portraits are closing their eyes. It seems that the figures are looking into their souls and are reviewing their lives. Moreover, the figures are usually long; for example, some figures have long faces and long necks. Even though the movie exaggerates the conflict between Mody and Picasso and changes the history a little bit, it is still good for those who want to know about Modigliani and his life.