Andy Garcia stars in a tour-de-force performance as the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani. Seizing on the fervor of Paris in the Twenties - when Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Diego Rivera and Jean Cocteau could often be found in the same café - the film presents the romantic, tragic, brilliant life of Modigliani in his final years, when he created some of his most famous paintings. The film makes an explicit connection between Modigliani's identity as a Jew and his outsider status, even within the Paris art scene, where he never aligned with any of the in-vogue artistic movements. The plot centers on Modigliani's intense rivalry with Picasso and his passion for Jeanne Hebuterne (Elsa Zylberstein, Man is a Woman , WJFF 1999), his muse and the subject of his most famous portraits.

Sponsored by the David Bruce Smith Family Foundation

Co-sponsored by the Embassy of France, Alliance Francaise de Washington, DC, and The Phillips Collection Department of Education

Special Guest: Mick Davis, Director