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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

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.

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Credits

Cast

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Alberto GiacomettiGeoffrey Rush
James LordArmie Hammer
CarolineClémence Poésy
Diego GiacomettiTony Shalhoub
Pierre MatisseJames Faulkner
AnnetteSylvie Testud
Claude MartineauKerry Shale
Anne-Marie FrenaudAnnabel Mullion

Crew

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DirectorStanley Tucci

Details

Theatrical distributor
Vertigo
Released on
2017-08-18
Languages
English | Italian | French
Guidance
Swearing, sexual references.
Available on
DVD
Formats
Colour
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