Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Beystiman It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

emuir-1 I enjoyed this film for the atmospheric scenes of bohemian Paris just after WWI. I did not take the recreation any more seriously than the time travel series on TV where the characters find themselves in the Paris of the 20's and run into Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Picasso, cocteau et al every time they set foot in a bar or turn a corner. Before the film began there was a statement that it was fiction based on real people and events; therefore those who complain about it not being an accurate biography of Modigliani have missed the point - no one ever said it was! My main problem with the film was Andy Garcia, who was around 15 years too old, too well fed and nowhere near as handsome as the real Modigliani. He simply did not have the Italian charm combined with dazzling good looks which would have been catnip to women. Not only was Garcia too old for the part, he can't act, and his haircut hanging in greasy strands over his face would turn off any woman.Another jarring note was that as baby Jeanne was born a few days after the end of WW1 and has not yet been baptised, something the Catholics do within few weeks of the birth, we must assume that the Modi and Jeane meet up again in 1918; however, there is no sign of Paris recovering from the terrible devastation of the war. Modigliani died two years later in 1920 and the film would have us believe that the intervening two years were one long party. From where did the starving artists get the money to buy their booze, let alone drugs? Finally, the structure of a little boy, Amadeo as a child? acting as his conscience was irritating and should have been scrapped. I would enjoy watching an accurate biography of Modigliani should someone care to make one.

lucasorriso This movie simply spoils a great character and its incredibly rich environment with a long series of pseudo-romantic inventions, a poor direction, and an awful Andy Garcia. Too many facts are totally invented, and alter deeply the personality of Modigliani, as well as the real course of the events, relationships, and even time line (Edit Piaf was definitely not singing yet at the time of the movie). Some scenes are ridiculous, and the large use of little cinematographic tricks (such like Modi whistling the Italian anthem, the "hollywood manual" competition applause, to name a few) lower the level to unacceptable. Fully disappointing.

Csaba Fikker Rotten Tomatoes has several dozen very bad reviews about this movie, and its such a shame - it will stay as one of my favorites af all time. Andy Garcias performance is superb and the whole experience is just an amazing romantic tragic but full of life feeling. It is probably not for everyones taste, as far as I'm concerned it is one of the best movies I have ever seen and I do watch a lot of movies Yes we know the story, and yes it might not be accurate for art historians but the way I see it it is a masterpiece in showcasing the soul and life of a troubled artist.See it and try to feel it and enjoy!

Nozz This is a movie about painters in Paris that tells us nothing about painting and shows us nothing of Paris. (Even a little stock footage would have been welcome.) The most profound observation anyone in the movie makes about Modigliani's work is that he exaggerates the length of the neck. To add a little excitement to the mix, characters fire guns in one another's general direction (twice) and the manner of Modigliani's death is irresponsibly fictionalized. At least I consider it irresponsible, because people will come to the movie not knowing the facts and come away thinking they've learned them. Andy Garcia is to be commended for taking the title role-- Modigliani is worth a movie, and I'm sure no one set out to make it a bad one-- but he is less convincing and interesting than the supporting actors who bring Soutine, Utrillo, and especially Renoir to life.