Summary
Stanley Tucci writes and directs this witty drama about the great Alberto Giacometti struggling to finish a portrait of US critic James Lord. Geoffrey Rush stars alongside Armie Hammer and Clemence Poesy.
Stanley Tucci writes and directs this witty drama about the great Alberto Giacometti struggling to finish a portrait of US critic James Lord. Geoffrey Rush stars alongside Armie Hammer and Clemence Poesy.
Written and directed by the actor Stanley Tucci, this portrait of the artist as a not-so-young man sees Geoffrey Rush enjoyably chewing the scenery as an ageing Alberto Giacometti, the 20th-century painter and sculptor best known for his elongated human figures. Armie Hammer plays the writer-friend Giacometti asks to sit for what will be the last portrait he paints. And it proves a very protracted process. For Giacometti believed portraits were constantly evolving things, and could never truly be finished. Tucci simply but skilfully paints his own portrait of Giacometti at work, in all the artist's painstaking and temperamental detail. But he also brings to things an almost Woody Allen-esque jauntiness that could earn the film a slightly wider audience than its arthouse subject matter might suggest. Niche but nice.
role | name |
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Alberto Giacometti | Geoffrey Rush |
James Lord | Armie Hammer |
Caroline | Clémence Poésy |
Diego Giacometti | Tony Shalhoub |
Pierre Matisse | James Faulkner |
Annette | Sylvie Testud |
Claude Martineau | Kerry Shale |
Anne-Marie Frenaud | Annabel Mullion |
role | name |
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Director | Stanley Tucci |