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A parodic story inspired by The Life of Émile Zola (William Dieterle) and transposed in the city of Quebec in the 1930s about a painter who flirts with abstraction and tries to make a living.
Status
Released
Original Language
FR
Set in Paris in 1919, biopic centers on the life of late Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani, focusing on his last days as well as his rivalry with Pablo Picasso. Modigliani, a Jew, has fallen in love with Jeanne, a young and beautiful Catholic girl. The couple has an illegitimate child, and Jeanne's bigoted parents send the baby to a faraway convent to be raised by nuns.