Sometimes reduced to the image of a cursed artist, Amedeo Modigliani, an admirer of the masters of the Italian Renaissance, has traced an unparalleled path in modern art.
Production
Gorgeous archival footage of 1920s Montmartre.
Direction
Lœuille balances myth-busting with genuine emotion.
Editing
Snappy 55 minutes — no documentary bloat.
Director
Jacques Lœuille
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Modigliani's nudes were once censored as obscene; now they're wallpaper in bougie apartments. The film quietly asks who profits from his suffering.
Director Lœuille spent years accessing private archives in Livorno — the 'secret' refers to letters revealing Modigliani deliberately cultivated his doomed persona. Performance art before it had a name.
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