Surviving Picasso (1996) on Netflix
R19962h 5mBiographyDramaRomance
In occupied Paris, young painter Françoise Gilot meets Pablo Picasso at a Left Bank bistro and visits his studio. Against her father's wishes she chooses painting, and Picasso encourages her.
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- Netflix2.4/5
- IMDb6.3/108,229 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes32%
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Plot summary
The Left Bank bistro Le Petit Benoit is where Françoise Gilot, a young painter, first meets Pablo Picasso during the Nazi occupation of Paris. He asks her and a friend to come and see his studio on the Rue des Grands-Augustins. Her father beats her when she tells him she means to paint rather than practice law. Picasso tells her to keep painting and the two begin an affair. She moves in with him. He is careless of other people's feelings: he dismisses a driver who served him for years and says he sleeps with whomever he wants. Other women are part of his life, among them Olga Khokhlova, Dora Maar and Marie-Thérèse Walter.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Surviving Picasso (1996)
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- Françoise Gilot withheld the rights to her autobiography Life with Picasso, and her son Claude, who administered the Picasso estate, refused permission to show or copy any Picasso artwork. Fake Picasso paintings had to be made for the film, which instead drew on Arianna Stassinopoulos's biography Picasso: Creator and Destroyer.
- The film was pulled at a late stage from a planned world premiere at the Venice Film Festival with no official reason given, and Françoise Gilot, who had opposed the film being made, said she was delighted, telling the media the jury thought what she thought: that the script was not good.
- Because James Ivory's Merchant-Ivory team was shooting The Proprietor at the same time, it recreated the Nazi occupation of Paris for one film and the liberation of Paris for Surviving Picasso in the Place de la Concorde on the same day.
