Art: 8 movies you need to see
Cinema is a way of traveling without leaving the couch and discovering other stories and possible realities. Thinking of all lovers of the seventh art, we have prepared a selection of eight films about the great artists of the last century. Take advantage of Carnival to watch these great films.
1.The Birth Of The Tramp (La Naissance de Charlot) (2013)
The first 25 years of his life seem like an almost unbelievable adventure story. From London's most squalid suburbs to Hollywood in less than twenty years, this is the true story of Chaplin's first steps in life. Disasters, upheavals, new and extremely rare footage, this film relives the beginnings of the most famous cinema heroes. An exciting and fascinating dive into Charlie Chaplin's youth, in a story that illustrates the rise of the artist and the popularity achieved with his most famous character, Carlitos.
2. frida (2002)
The Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA-winning film depicts the daring and controversial life of the famous artist. Frida Kahlo. Set in Mexico City, this visually evocative feature film depicts his illness, visionary artistic, political and sexual attitudes and tumultuous relationship with Diego Rivera, along with his illicit affairs with Trotsky and several women.
3.woman in gold (2015)
Sixty years after fleeing Vienna, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren), an elderly Jewish woman, tries to recover the family assets that were seized by the Nazis. Among these is a famous portrait of Maria's beloved Aunt Adele: Gustave Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I". With the help of young lawyer Randy Schoeberg (Ryan Reynolds), Maria ends up facing a legal battle against the Austrian government to recover this painting and several others, but it will not be easy, as Austria considers these national treasures.
4.Basquiat (2006)
In 1981, an unknown nineteen-year-old street artist transformed New York's view of the art world. This feature film tells the story of Basquiat and the mad rise of the young artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, who started out as a street artist and rose to an international arts star.
5. big eyes (2014)
Centered on the American artist Margaret Keane, whose work was fraudulently used in the 1950s and 1960s by her then-husband Walter Keane, it culminates in the highly publicized divorce of the two, with the need to prove the true authorship of the paintings.
6. little ashes (2008)
In 1922, during the Second Spanish Republic, winds of opening were felt, when the young painter Salvador Dalí (Robert Pattinson) goes to study in Madrid. In that city he meets Luis Buñuel (Matthew McNulty), Federico García Lorca (Javier Beltrán) and Margarita Manso (Marina Gatell), with whom he forms a group with the will to change the world and who sees no limits in his art. This mutual fascination leads Lorca to fall in love with Dalí, who timidly reciprocates the affection. A film that explores the life of the young Salvador Dalí and his relationship with the poet Federico Garcia Lorca.
7. Copy as per (2010)
In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged British writer meets a French woman, who owns an art gallery, who takes him to the village of Lucignano. In this city, a casual question reveals something deeper. Juliette Binoche, lead actress, won the Best Actress award at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.
8. Modigliani (2004)
The story of an artist who revolutionized the art world, a creative and irreverent painter who left his mark on Paris in the early 20th century, inspired by love and consumed by obsession, a troubled life dedicated to pleasures and passions.
