6.3/10
IMDB Rating : 6.3
FD Smart Rating : 6.3
Synopsis : After agreeing to sit for a portrait, writer James Lord gets an intimate glimpse of the erratic genius of acclaimed Swiss painter Alberto Giacometti.
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United Kingdom
Takatsuna Mukai , Annabel Mullion , Geoffrey Rush , James Faulkner , Tim Dreisden , Kerry Shale , Armie Hammer , Clemence Poesy , Tony Shalhoub , Sylvie Testud
English [Original]
English
Biography, Comedy, Drama
2017
1h30m
strong language, sex references
In 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, the American writer and art-lover James Lord (Armie Hammer) is asked by his friend, the world-renowned artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush), to sit for a portrait. The process, Giacometti assures Lord, will take only a few days. Flattered and intrigued, Lord agrees. So begins not only the story of an offbeat friendship, but, seen through the eyes of Lord, an insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and, at times, downright chaos of the artistic process. FINAL PORTRAIT is a portrait of a genius, and of a friendship between two men who are utterly different, yet increasingly bonded through a single, ever-evolving act of creativity. It is a film which shines a light on the artistic process itself, by turns exhilarating, exasperating and bewildering, questioning whether the gift of a great artist is a blessing or a curse.