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Fr. 2025. Drama by Pierre Schoeller with Camille Cottin, Romain Duris, Céleste Brunnquell. After experiencing a moment of enlightenment while viewing three paintings by Rembrandt, a nuclear physicist decides to campaign for the survival of the planet.
Runtime: 106 min.
Can. 2026. Drama by Geneviève Dulude-De Celles with Galin Stoev, Ekaterina Stanina, Sofia Stanina. A Montreal curator returns to his native Romania to meet a 8 year old girl, a painting prodigy who's gone viral on the Internet.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 2024. Drama by Pascal Bonitzer with Alex Lutz, Léa Drucker, Nora Hamzawi. An auctioneer comes into possession of a painting by Egon Schiele, a masterpiece stolen by the Nazis and missing since 1939.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 2023. Biography by Martin Provost with Vincent Macaigne, Cécile de France, Anouk Grinberg. At the turn of the 20th century, the complex relationship between the painter Pierre Bonnard and his companion Marthe, who was his model before sharing his life for nearly 50 years.
Runtime: 122 min.

Caravaggio's Shadow

V.O.: L'Ombra di Caravaggio
Fr. 2022. Historic chronicle by Michele Placido with Riccardo Scamarcio, Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert. In 1609, the pope appointed an inquisitor to investigate the painter Caravaggio who, accused of murder, had left Rome for Naples.
Runtime: 117 min.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

V.O.: Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Fr. 2019. Sentimental drama by Céline Sciamma with Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luana Bajrami. Hired to paint the portrait of the daughter of a Breton countess who has been promised against her will to a Milanese nobleman, an artist must deal with her model’s refusal to pose.
Runtime: 121 min.
G.-B. 2018. Biography by Julian Schnabel with Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac. In the late 1880s, painter Vincent Van Gogh followed Paul Gauguin’s advice and moved to Arles, where he would create some of his greatest works.
Runtime: 102 min.
G.-B. 2017. Animation by Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman with Douglas Booth, Saoirse Ronan, Robert Gulaczyk. In 1891, a year after the death of painter Vincent Van Gogh, the son of his letter carrier conducts a personal investigation that leads him to question the official ruling of suicide.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 2015. History by Simon Curtis with Helen Mirren, Ryan Reynolds, Daniel Brühl. In 1998, an octogenarian Californian woman of Jewish origin tries to force an Austrian museum to return a Gustav Klimt painting stolen from her family by the Nazis during the war.
Runtime: 110 min.
U.S. 2014. Biography by Tim Burton with Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Danny Huston. In San Francisco, in the 1960s, a failed painter takes credit for the fascinating canvases painted by his wife showing children with huge eyes.
Runtime: 106 min.
G.-B. 2014. Biography by Mike Leigh with Timothy Spall, Marion Bailey, Dorothy Atkinson. The last years of the life of the painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, whose work, composed of maritime scenes dissolved in light, spearheaded impressionism.
Runtime: 149 min.
U.S. 2006. Thriller by Ron Howard with Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou, Ian McKellen. An American suspected of murdering the curator of the Louvre embarks on an investigation with the curator
Runtime: 148 min.
Esp. 2006. History by Milos Forman with Javier Bardem, Stellan Skarsgard, Natalie Portman. In 1792, in Madrid, a member of the Inquisition unjustly imprisons a wealthy young woman who has posed for the painter Goya.
Runtime: 113 min.
U.S. 2002. Biography by Julie Taymor with Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush. Documentary about the tumultuous life of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo and her relationship with her husband, the muralist Diego Rivera.
Runtime: 122 min.
U.S. 2000. Biography by Ed Harris with Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Amy Madigan. The professional and sentimental life of the New York abstract painter Jackson Pollock, from 1941 until his death in 1956.
Runtime: 123 min.
U.S. 1996. Biography by Julian Schnabel with Jeffrey Wright, David Bowie, Michael Wincott.
Runtime: 106 min.

Divertimento

V.O.: La Belle Noiseuse
Fr. 1991. Psychological drama by Jacques Rivette with Michel Piccoli, Jane Birkin, Emmanuelle Béart. A young woman who poses for a painter sees her life transformed by the experience.
Runtime: 125 min.
Norv. 1976. Biography by Peter Watkins with Geir Westby, Gro Fraas, Stormack Kare. The life of a Norwegian painter of the late nineteenth century.
Runtime: 174 min.

Andrei Rublev

V.O.: Andrey Rublyov
URSS 1966. History by Andreï Tarkovski with Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Sergueiev. The tribulations of an icon painter in fifteenth century Russia.
Runtime: 183 min.
U.S. 1965. History by Carol Reed with Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento. Pope Julius II orders sculptor Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Runtime: 139 min.
U.S. 1945. Fantasy by Albert Lewin with George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed. A fast-living man obtains the power to remain young while his portrait bears the marks of his degradation and aging.
Runtime: 110 min.
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