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‘Modi – Three Days On The Wing Of Madness’ Review: Punk Rock Lives In Johnny Depp’s Riotous Celebration Of Artistic Excess – San Sebastian
'Modi – Three Days On The Wing Of Madness' review: Punk Rock lives in Johnny Depp's riotous celebration of artistic excess – San Sebastian
Johnny Depp ’s bohemian fantasy starts at full throttle, with the artist Amelio Modigliani (Riccardo Scamarcio) breaking up the Café Dome, then exiting on a trolley straight through their stained glass window, smashing the Art Nouveau rosebuds to bits while still clutching an ice bucket with a souvenired bottle of champagne in it. As it is, Utrillo and Soutine play a game with their own saliva that turns even Modi’s stomach; Scamarcio, who intermittently leans into the kind of clowning Johnny Depp has explored himself as an actor, makes the most of the yucky bits. With no claim to biographical exactitude, it can mix up dates; the film is set at the beginning of the First World War, but Modigliani only met the dealer given an unflattering portrait here, Léopold Zborowski (an excellent and engaging Stephen Graham) in 1916.
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