The Lovers of Montparnasse

The Lovers of Montparnasse

1958 · 108 min · FR · 7.1 (37 votes)
Dir. Jacques Becker · Starring Gérard Philipe, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani, Gérard Séty, Lino Ventura, Anouk Aimée · Music Paul Misraki
RomanceDramaHistory

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.

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A deeply romantic and tragic portrayal of an artist's final year. It's a bohemian fever dream filled with passion, poverty, and the pursuit of beauty, set against the backdrop of Montparnasse.

melancholicpassionatetragicbohemianslow-burnarthouseperiod dramabiographicalartlovepovertyobsession
depressionbased on novel or bookartistpainterbiographymontparnassepovertyalcoholicart dealerdrunkenness
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