The Stories about Art Films: 31. Lautrec (1998), ACJ Movie Academy

 

Basic Info

Title: Lautrec

Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama

Country: France, Spain

Language: French

Running time: 125 minutes

Release date: 7 September 1998 (Venice Film Festival), 9 September 1998 (France)

Staff

Director: Roger Planchon

Produced by: Margaret Ménégoz

Screenplay: Roger Planchon

Cinematography: Gérard Simon

Music: Jean-Pierre Fouquey

Editor: Isabelle Devinck

Cast

Régis Royer as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Elsa Zylberstein as Suzanne Valadon

Anémone as Comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec

Claude Rich as Comte Alphonse de Toulouse-Lautrec

Hélène Babu as La Goulue

Karel Vingerhoets as Vincent van Gogh

Régis Royer

Elsa Zylberstein

Summary

"Lautrec" is a 1998 French-Spanish biographical film about the French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. 

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Directed by Roger Planchon, the film focuses on his love with painter Suzanne Valadon, and it was shown at the 1998 Venice Film Festival.

Self-Portrait, Suzanne Valadon (1898)

Lautrec was a French painter born on November 24, 1864 and died on September 9, 1901, who is one of the most famous Post-Impressionist painters along with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Georges Seurat.

Portrait of Vincent van Gogh,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1887)

After moving to Paris in 1882, he studied from Léon Bonnat and was fascinated by Montmartre, famous for its bohemian lifestyle. Later, he moved to Fernand Cormon’s studio, where he met friends for the rest of his life. At this time, he also met Émile Bernard and Vincent van Gogh. 

Fille romaine à la fontaine, Léon Bonnat
(1875)

Going Fishing, Fernand Cormon (1888)

Lautrec met Suzanne Valadon in 1885, and he painted several portraits of her and supported her ambition as an artist. It is said that the two were lovers and she wanted to marry him, but when their relationship ended, Valadon attempted suicide.

Portrait of Suzanne Valadon,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1885)

Movie Review

“Wonderful”

“Wonderful biography of painter Toulouse-Lautrec”

“I love it”

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The Stories about Art Films: 4. Moulin Rouge (1952), ACJ Movie Academy

Basic Info

Title: Moulin Rouge

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Language: English

Production Company: Romulus Films

Distributed by: United Artists (US), British Lion Films (UK)

Running time: 119 minutes

Release date: 23 December 1952 (United States)

Staff

Director: John Huston

Producer: John Woolf, James Woolf

Based on: 1950 novel, Pierre La Mure

Screenplay: John Huston, Anthony Veiller

Music: Georges Auric, William Engvick

Cinematography: Oswald Morris

Editor: Ralph Kemplen

Cast

José Ferrer (Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec)

Zsa Zsa Gabor (Jane Avril)

Suzanne Flon (Myriamme Hyam)

Katherine Kath (La Goulue)

Muriel Smith (Aicha)

Colette Marchand (Marie Charlet)

Christopher Lee (Georges Seurat)

Summary

Moulin Rouge is a 1952 British drama film directed by John Huston, produced by Romulus Films Company, and distributed by United Artists. The film is set in Paris in the late 19th century, following the artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in the bohemian culture in and around the Moulin Rouge, a landmark of the burlesque shows. The screenplay is written by John Huston based on the 1950 novel by Pierre La Mure, and the cinematography was by Oswald Morris. The film was screened at the 14th Venice International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Lion award.

Movie Review

“Beautiful, engrossing drama”

“John Huston's greatest”

“A painter's pain”

“A man who proved that size does not make a giant”

“Real life story of a famous artist”

“A genuine masterpiece”

“A romanticized version of Toulouse Lautrec's life and art”

Interesting stories about the film

1. José Ferrer transformed into the short artist Toulouse-Lautrec using camera angles, makeup, costume, hidden pits and platforms. Ferrer also used a set of special knee pads that he designed himself, which he could walk with his knees with his lower legs strapped to his upper body.

2. Much of the filming and some of the costumes and character makeup were made similar to the poster art drawn by Henri de Toulouse Lautrec.

3. John Huston was almost killed by a man during one night, when he brought Suzanne Flon back to her apartment. The man was a friend of Flon, who was filled with jealousy.

4. John Huston was disgusted by the French individualism during filming in Paris streets.

5. Jane Avril was not a singer, but a dancer.

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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: 13. HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

Name: Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Born: November 24, 1864; Albi, Tarn, France

Died: September 9, 1901; Château Malromé, Saint-André-du-Bois, France

Nationality: French

Art Movement: Post-Impressionism, Art Nouveau

Field: Painting, printmaking, illustration, drawing

Influenced by: Edgar Degas

Influenced on: Edvard Munch, Amedeo Modigliani, J. C. Leyendecker

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was a French painter, printmaker, caricaturist, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colorful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times. Toulouse-Lautrec is among the best-known painters of the Post-Impressionist period, with Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin.

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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: 6. EDVARD MUNCH

Name: Edvard Munch

Born: 12 December 1863, Ådalsbruk, Løten, Norway

Died: 23 January 1944, Oslo, Norway

Nationality: Norwegian

Art Movement: Symbolism, Expressionism

Field: Painting
Influenced by: Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges Seurat, Caspar David Friedrich

Influenced on: Egon Schiele, Wassily Kandinsky, Max Beckmann, Paul Klee, Henri Matisse

Friends/Colleagues: Franz Marc

Edvard Munch was a Norwegian painter, whose best known work, “The Scream”, has become one of the most iconic images of world art. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family.

Studying at the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania (today’s Oslo), Munch began to live the bohemian life under the negative influence of the nihilist Hans Jæger who did urge him to paint his own emotional and psychological state, and from this situation, his distinctive style was emerged. Although his works were banned in Nazi Germany, most of them survived World War II, ensuring him a secure legacy.

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