Paris, 1911. When Da Vinci's painting “La Gioconda” is stolen from the Louvre museum, it is suspected that the authors of the audacious theft are members of a group of bohemian artists led by painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire…
Production
Gloriously scruffy Belle Époque Paris on what looks like €50.
Acting
Ignacio Mateos plays Picasso like a horny, arrogant golden retriever.
Writing
Apollinaire's panicked poetry slaps as comic punctuation.
Director
Fernando Colomo
Ignacio Mateos
Pablo Picasso
Pierre Bénézit
Guillaume Apollinaire
Lionel Abelanski
Max Jacob
Raphaëlle Agogué
Fernande Olivier
Jordi Vilches
Manolo Hugué
Louise Monot
Marie Laurencin
Stanley Weber
George Braque
Thomas Jouannet
Henri-Pierre Roché
Alexis Michalik
Géry 'Le Baron' Piéret
David Coburn
Leo Stein
Eszter Tompa
Alice B. Toklas
Tony Gaultier
Henri Matisse
Barnabás Tóth
Policeman
József Gyabronka
Judge Drioux
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real Picasso and Apollinaire were briefly actual suspects in the 1911 theft; police interrogated them both. The film turns three days of terror into a bedroom farce.
Director Fernando Colomo is a Spanish institution—this was his 40th film, and he cast himself as a clueless detective because of course he did.
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