Life With Picasso
Customer Review: A wonderful insight into real life with Picasso
This book follows the decade or so that Francoise Gilot and Picasso were lovers, and covers their day-to-day lives, their discussions on art, their friends (Matisse, Gertrude Stein, Braque etc) and their children (Paloma and Claude). It’s a wonderful biography, beautifully written and very evocative. You admire Francoise for sticking with Picasso for so long and are amazed at the genius that he was.

A great read whether or not you are interested in Picasso and his art.

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Never Met Picasso [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Customer Review: Hazy Homosexual Autumnal Angst
This mid-nineties wash of the American Boston Art scene holds on to a thinthread of plot: Andrew (Alexis Arquette who won the Los Angeles Gay andLesbian Film Festival award for Best Actor for this film) searches hissoul for his muse and finds himself searching other lives as well-HisUncle who habours a secret love for a young man from his distant past; hisMother(the marvelous Margot Kidder) who is stagnant in local theatreproductions and at a turning point in her sexuality; Lucy (Americancomedienne, Georgia Ragsdale) his best friend whose own muse seems to findit’s breath in the work of her channeling lesbian lover Ingrid’s (Indiefilm actress Omewenne) renderings of the words of unacknowledged womenartists: Jerry (the wonderful Canadian actor/writer Don McKellar)thequirky playboy Andrew falls into bed with; and Andrew’s out of touchfather who is distracted with his new wife. When Andrew’s Uncle sudddenlypasses away, Andrew begins to find his way through New England’s metaphorsof Autumn, Death, and Surrender. While NEVER MET PICASSO has it’s slowmoments and finds it’s way a bit hazily at times, there is an underscoreof a young man’s search for his own path beneath which is what this firsttime filmdirector’s baby leaves you with.

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Gertrude Stein on Picasso.

Visiting Picasso (Illinois Poetry)

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Pablo Picasso: A Primitive Soul (REGION 1) (NTSC)

Pablo Picasso: Breaking All the Rules: Breaking All the Rules (Smart about the Arts)

Immoral Tales [1977]
Customer Review: completely over-rated
Awful awful film. This is only for real cinema buffs with a lot of time on their hands. I have made attempts to grow an appreciation of this type of film but would rather watch the snooker and/or paint dry than have to watch this film again.
Customer Review: Premium erotica
Immoral Tales is one of Borowzcyk’s masterpieces, though it does not reach the heights of La Bete or L’ile d’amour. Borowczuk’s style is distinctive: subliminal, insinuative imagery, slow build-ups leading up to explosive finales in which sexuality and (often) violence run wild, excellent scores and respectable acting, an amazing use of colour. All this amounts to much more than softcore pornography. Borowzcyk’s achievement far surpasses the level of Emmanuelle and by far outstrips the likes of Franco and Brass.

Picasso (Life & Times)