Surviving Picasso
1996
**½
Director: James Ivory
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Joss Ackland
Pablo Picasso loved women but none of them had precedence over his art. Anthony Hopkins is strong in the title role, but the film is badly let down by its female characters, who are nothing but helpless victims. Also, we never see any of the artist's real work on screen. Loosely based on Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington's book Picasso: Creator and Destroyer.
