Now that’s cool. You get a lot of movie release announcements each week for the home entertainment package media marketplace — all sorts, genre, classic foreign language — so it is always a treat when there is something unique that comes along.
Such is the case this week with the latest announcement from Icarus Films. The perfect holiday gift for art lovers, The Adventures of Modern Art, will be available on Nov. 10 as double-disc DVD presentation.
Produced by France’s Silex Films and backed by a $3.3 million production budget, three documentary filmmakers joined forces for this six-part series using Dan Franck’s book anthology, “Bohemes: Les Aventures de l’Art,”as the backbone for the presentation … a look at the lives and the work of the artists living in Paris during the first half of the 20th Century.
Filmmakers Amélie Harrault (Kiki of Montparnasse), Pauline Gaillard and Valérie Loiseleux (the latter two are both César Awards-winning film editors) blend animation and archival footage to present the world, works and influences of the Picasso, Max Jacob, Stein, Apollinaire, Hemingway, Matisse, and Cocteau.
We even get a glimpse of the art world from a dealer’s prospective — the commercial aspects. And, without saying, the various influences from Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism to Surrealism that defined the Parisian world of Modern Art.
The Adventures of Modern Art is presented in a combination of French, German and English, with English subtitles … narration is by Amira Casar (Call Me by Your Name, The Last Summer of the Rich, Saint Laurent, etc.).
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