His passion was life. His obsession was art. Andy Garcia brings to life artistic genius Amedeo Modigliani's story of tragic love, rivalry and excess in the midst of art history's golden age when greats like Picasso, Rivera, Cocteau and Modigliani held court in the salons of post-WWI Paris. Modigliani's passionate life is also an existence that is filled with struggle at every turn. In love, he is faced with religious bigotry. The father of his love, Jeanne, a beautiful Catholic girl, opposes their relationship and sends their child off to a convent because Modigliani is a Jew. In art, he battles for recognition with none other than Pablo Picasso. Desperate to get his child back, he enters Paris' annual art competition, as does his rival, Picasso. With so much at stake, the artist takes refuge before their canvases, each of their destinies hanging in the balance.
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The story takes place in Paris in the years after the First World War. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne (Elsa Zylberstein), a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple have an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns.
Modigliani is distraught and needs money to rescue and raise his child. The answer arrives in the shape of Paris' annual art competition. Prize money and a guaranteed career await the winner. Neither Modigliani, nor his dearest friend and rival Picasso (Omid Djalili) have ever entered the competition, believing that it is beneath true artists like themselves. But push comes to shove with the welfare of his child on the line, and Modigliani signs up for the competition in a drunken and drug-induced tirade. Picasso follows suit and all of Paris is aflutter with excitement at who will win.
With the balance of his relationship with Jeanne on the line, Modigliani tackles this work with the hopes of creating a masterpiece, and knows that all the artists of Paris are doing the same.
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