We have
been full steam ahead movies of late. The relief of winding down in the
semester, which mainly affects the student amongst us, but because we all play
a role in helping him get through it all, reading to him and quizzing him and
making sure he knows the material, less of that opens up a lot of time for us
as a family to so what we do best, which is watch a wide variety of movies
together.
This is a movie based on the memoir
of writer James Lord, who was a chronicler
of 20th century art who not infrequently befriended the artists he wrote
about. In 1964, in Paris, the sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti asked
Lord to sit for a portrait. What follows is week upon week of not producing a
portrait, and yet does include an intimate look at the home life of the artist
and his artistic process.
It is a small movie, with three talented
actors playing out a triangulated relationship. Let's just say it did not
make me want to know an artist personally, but gave me an appreciation for the
challenges involved.
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