Final Portrait

“In Final Portrait, Stanley Tucci, directing his first film in 10 years, takes the biopic to an even more exquisitely homespun level of miniature close-up.” Owen Gleiberman, Variety.

Paris, 1964: Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush) bumps into his old friend, the American critic James Lord (Armie Hammer), and begs that he sit for a portrait because he has an interesting face. It’ll just take a couple of days in his studio. Lord is flattered by the request and as the days go by and turn into weeks and weeks seemingly with no end in sight, he realizes his entire life has been hijacked by this erratic genius.

R; 90 minutes

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