Basic Info
Title:
Cézanne and I
Genre:
Biography, Drama
Country:
France
Language:
French
Running
time: 116 minutes
Release
date: 21 September 2016
Staff
Director:
Danièle Thompson
Produced by: Albert Koski
Screenplay: Danièle Thompson
Music: Éric Neveux
Cinematography:
Jean-Marie Dreujou
Edited
by: Sylvie Landra
Cast
Guillaume Canet as Émile Zola
Guillaume Gallienne as Paul Cézanne
Alice Pol as Alexandrine Zola
Déborah François as Hortense
Cézanne
Sabine Azéma as Elisabeth Cézanne
Summary
“Cézanne and I” is a 2016
French biographical drama film about the friendship between 19th-century
novelist Émile Zola and painter Paul Cézanne. The film was written and directed
by Danièle Thompson and starred Guillaume Canet, Guillaume Gallienne, Alice
Pol, Déborah François and Sabine Azéma. The film was named as one of four films
for the French submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
at the 89th Academy Awards.
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| Portrait of Emile Zola, Paul Cézanne (c. 1862 -1864) |
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| Self Portrait, Paul Cezanne (1879) |
Movie
Review
“Cezanne's emotional
strife rather than art is the focus”
“Breathtaking
cinematography, stereotypical characters”
“Bit of a bore”
“A cinematic masterpiece”
“Superb film for artist
and authors”
Interesting
stories about the film
1. Director Danièle Thompson
originally wanted to write a play about the relationship between Cézanne and
Zola, but fellow director Mike Nichols convinced her that a film would make
this theme more relevant.
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| Danièle Thompson |
2. Père Tanguy, who appears in the
film selling paint to Cézanne in his shop, also provided paint to other
Impressionist painters and Vincent Van Gogh, who painted his portrait now at
the Rodin Museum in Paris.
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| Portrait of Père Tanguy, Vincent van Gogh, Musée Rodin, Paris (1887) |
3. At the end of the film, the man
who appears buying Cézanne's paintings is Ambroise Vollard, an art dealer who
promoted several Impressionist painters and made a fortune with their works.
Cézanne appears painting his portrait, which can now be seen at the Petit
Palais in Paris.
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| Portrait of Ambroise Vollard, Paul Cézanne, Petit Palais, Paris (1899) |
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