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Al Pacino on how he got his Modigliani film off the ground after 30 years
Exclusive: Actor talks of difficulties of getting ‘art film’ made about tortured artist, played by Riccardo Smacarcio
He refused to give up on a drama about Amedeo Modigliani, a tortured genius who faced repeated rejection before his life was cut short in 1920 by tubercular meningitis, aged 35. Set in war-torn Paris in 1916, it is a fantasy that chronicles 72 hours in the chaotic, bohemian life of Modigliani as he tries desperately to escape the squalor of Montmartre and find recognition as an artist by meeting a famous American collector, played by Pacino, who said: “Unfortunately, it doesn’t turn out to be as he expected.” Pacino singled out movies about Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Munch and Toulouse-Lautrec, the latter played by José Ferrer: “Each one of those films had their own context and were independent of each other, different in ways, but at the core that feeling of being judged and undervalued are there.”
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