Picasso and Braque Go to the Movies (2008) on Netflix
NR20081hDocumentary
Early filmmaking shaped the Cubist painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Picasso, a lifelong movie lover, was drawn to the machines that made moving pictures.
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The Cubist painters Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were at work while early filmmaking took shape. The documentary examines how that new medium influenced the two of them, and what they in turn gave to the cinema. Picasso, a lifelong movie lover, was drawn to the machines that made moving pictures and to the images they produced. Artists who appear in the film describe the shared love of movies that fed the art the two men made.
