Surviving Picasso
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
James Ivory
Olivier Galfione
Natascha Mcelhone
Bruno Pasquier-desvignes
Vernon Dobtcheff
Mike Bonfield
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
This is the story of a famous painter and of a young girl, Francoise, an aspiring painter. Their affair, which lasts 10 years, begins in 1943 during the German occupation of Paris. The painter is Picasso; he is in his 60s, and as wild and passionate as a youth. His path is littered with former mistresses and, while swearing eternal love to Francoise, he pays regular visits to the sensual, phlegmatic Marie-Therese, the brilliant Dora, also a painter, whose feelings for him have brought her to a nervous breakdown, and his Russian wife, Olga, a former dancer, whom he has driven to the point of actual madness. Francoise has to accept all these women and their offspring as part of her relationship with Picasso. Moreover, she has to accept his unpredictable moods, his outrageous sense of humor, his stinginess, his childish tyrannies, and his delight in making others submit to his whims. But when Picasso begins yet another new affair, Francoise realizes that, to save herself, she must leave him.
Director
James Ivory
Cast
Olivier Galfione
Natascha Mcelhone
Bruno Pasquier-desvignes
Vernon Dobtcheff
Mike Bonfield
Jacky Pratoussy
Andrea Nagy
Julianne Moore
Olegar Fedoro
Stefan Gryff
Gwen Reed
Hamish Mccoll
Cengiz Kahn
Marc Tissot
Andreas Wisniewski
Dennis Boutsikaris
Kevin Toomey
Damien Brun
Mathew Ware
Leon Lissek
Joss Ackland
Judith Sharp
Sevilla Delofski
Nigel Whitmey
Laurent Schwaar
Marc Monnet
Thomas Fisher
Alex Pooley
Alexei Jawdokimov
Boris Isarov
Valerie Toledano
Lean Whitney
Beth Lawson
Joan Plowright
John Lawson
Diane Venora
Peter Gerety
Andrew Litvack
Debbie Cusmans
David Sterne
Jean-gabriel Nordmann
Rose English
Charlotte Balthorpe
Joseph Maher
Valentina Yakunina
Nicola Christian
Bob Peck
Sandor Eles
Georgio Serafini
Laura Aikman
Seth Rubin
Joe Gecks
Agapi Stassinopoulos
Anthony Hopkins
Jane Lapotaire
Peter Eyre
Brigitte Kahn
Celia Hewitt
Anthony Milner
Dominic West
Scott Thrun
Susannah Harker
Allegra Dicapegna
Crew
Peter Adler
Elizabeth Aldrich
Geoffrey Alexander
Gina R. Alfano
Virginia Allan
Jill Andre-reed
Eve-marie Arnault
Luciana Arrighi
Maud Baigneres
Humbert Balsan
Sarah Barbault
Michael Barry
Bernard Bats
Bernard Bellew
Bi Benton
Dany Blanchon
Raymond Blanchon
Rahila Bootwala
Paul Bradley
Stephen Bream
Freddie Brown
Pierre-yves Bruneel
Kam Chan
Nadine Chaussonniere
Ben Cheah
Alalia Chetwynd
Angelo Chinosi
Jatinderpal Chohan
Pierre Choumeurthe
Melissa Chung
Florian Contini
Colin Corby
Marko Costanzo
Pierre Cotte
Pierre Dreyfus
Gill Ducker
Emmanuelle Duplay
Penny Dyer
Trevor Dyer
Toby Eady
Tina Earnshaw
Katharine Edmonds
Beth Elliott
Sean Evans
Lou Eyrich
Chris Fielder
Steve Finch
Tommy Finch
Vanessa Flynn
Celestia Fox
Gary Fox
Mark Fruin
Giles Gardner
James Gemmill
Paul Ghirardani
Betty Glasow
Tula Goenka
Lewis Goldstein
Michel Gonckel
Christopher Granier-deferre
Nayeem Hafizka
Hilary Haines
Philippa Hart
Rawdon Hayne
Deborah Hecht
Gary Hedges
John Hedges
Susan Hegarty
Robert Hein
Charlie Henley
Pauline Heys
Andrew Hill
Anna Houghton
Kent Houston
Ben Howarth
Arianna Huffington
Peter Hunt
Michel Imbert
Andrew Jack
Azmine Jaffer
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Rowan Joffe
Remi Julienne
Frank Kern
Jonathan Kier
Elizabeth Kime
Sunil Kirparam
Annette Kudrak
Geoffrey Larcher
Sarah Lebas
Danny Lebigot
Sophie Lemaire
Anjali Lenglet
Andrew Litvack
Gasuza Lwanga
Andrew Marcus
Philippe Margotin
Pippa Marks
Karen Mcmullen
Mark Mcneil
Ismail Merchant
Denis Mercier
Joanna Merlin
Carla Meyer
Liz Michie
Susan Midgley
Olivier Molinari
Abel Monem
Christina Moore
Vanessa Munro
Francis Naumann
Glen Neibaur
Chris Newman
Jackie Ophir
Sian Parry
Bruno Pasquier-desvignes
Bruno Pasquier-desvignes
Nicolas Picard
Tony Pierce-roberts
Elena Pistorio
Stefano Priori
Bruce Pross
Jacques Quinternet
Harry Rabinowitz
Carol Ramsey
Alan Rank
Cyril Renaud
Marilyn Reynods
Richard Robbins
Donald Rosenfeld
Yves Rousset Rouard
Terry Rowley
Seth Rubin
Andrew Sanders
Tanayi Seabrook
Mary Sheldon
Stuart Stanley
Sarah Strupinski
Frankin Tartaglione
Annette Trumel
Marie-laure Valla
Christopher Vann
Andrea Vecchiato
Alain Veyssier
Steve Visscher
Deborah Wallach
K J Welland
Arthur Wicks
Alexander Widhoff
Roger Willis
Vernon Witham
David L. Wolper
Anna Worley
Jason Wrenn
Mickael Zemmour
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Expanded Release in United States September 27, 1996
Limited Release in United States September 20, 1996
Released in United States on Video March 25, 1997
Released in United States September 1996
Shown at Boston Film Festival September 6-19, 1996.
Began shooting September 25, 1995.
Completed shooting December 15, 1995.
Released in United States on Video March 25, 1997
Released in United States September 1996 (Shown at Boston Film Festival September 6-19, 1996.)
Limited Release in United States September 20, 1996
Expanded Release in United States September 27, 1996
