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Surviving Picasso

CastAnthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Joss Ackland, Peter Eyre, Jane Lapotaire, Joseph Maher, Bob Peck, Diane Venora, Joan Plowright
Year released1996
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A German officer asks Painter Pablo Picasso, "This all fantasy?" 
Picasso: ”All fantasy...” (0:02)

Painter Genvieve answers Picasso, "Van Gogh." 

Picasso: ”Van Gogh. He’s all right...” (0:03)

Picasso: "... appeared in a dream..." (0:10)

Genvieve’s friend Françoise Gilot, narrating, referring to Picasso: "... He said, ‘It wasn’t that I behaved well, but that others behaved badly.’... My father had worked hard to form my character... this would take all my courage." (0:14)

Her father tells Françoise, "You must be mad." 
Father: ”... tell me you’ve been a fool.” 
”... I’ll have you committed, because you’re mad.” (0:15)

Her father beats Françoise, inflicting head injuries
He tells Françoise’s grandmother, ”... She’s crazy.” 
Grandmother: ”... you... crazy.” 
Father: ”... I’ve finished with... both of you.” (0:16)

Françoise, referring to Marie-Thérèse Walter, "... she wasn’t very intelligent... to express Dora’s much stronger character..." (0:25)

Françoise, referring to Dora Maar: "... she was psychologically his prisoner..." (0:26)

Picasso tells Dora, "... Go and see Dr. Lacan." (0:27)

Picasso tells Dora, referring to Françoise, "She’s intelligent... I really like intelligent women..." 
”... I’m in a good mood...” 
Dora: ”... You even hate yourself.” 
Picasso: ”Dora’s quite a psychologist...” (0:29)

Dora tells Françoise, "The owner’s wife was killed in a car crash..." (0:31)

Graveyard (0:36)

Picasso tells Françoise, "... It would only depress me." (0:40)

Marie-Thérèse Walter tells Picasso, "... Money is such a worry for you..." (0:53)

Picasso tells Françoise, referring to his wife Olga Khokhlova, "... completely crazy." (0:58)

Chauffeur Marcel tells Picasso, referring to Picasso’s son Paulo, "... He’s very proud of you..." (1:01)

The police commissioner tells Picasso, "... Such behavior is inadmissible." (1:02)

Picasso tells Paulo, "... Throwing a woman out of a window. Idiot." 
”... never in my life did I throw one out of a window.” 
Referring to Olga: ”... She’s mad so you were born mad...” (1:02)

Picasso tells Françoise, "... Ruined millionaires jump out of windows..." (1:07)

Françoise tells her grandmother, "... supposed to be a test of character..." (1:08)

Françoise smacks Picasso in the face. (1:13)

Françoise, referring to Picasso: "He was brilliant at... changing her mood..." (1:14)

Picasso, referring to his daughter Paloma, "She’ll be... passive..." (1:15)

Françoise, referring to Picasso: "... He would... explain it as a metaphor..." (1:16)

Picasso asks painter Henri Matisse, "... What do these symbols mean to you?..." (1:20)

Picasso tells Marcel, "... the next time you drunk... you’re out." 
”... you were... getting drunk... lead this idiot astray...” (1:24)

Françoise quotes Picasso: "They want to be shocked..." (1:25)

Françoise tells Picasso, "... I was worried..." (1:29)

Françoise tells her photographer friend Pierre, "... My grandmother’s had a stroke..." (1:33)

Her father tells Françoise, referring to her grandmother, "She died last night..." (1:34)

Her father tells Françoise, "... There’s no one left to come to your funeral..." (1:36)

Françoise tells Genvieve, referring to Picasso, "... He didn’t even come to his own mother’s funeral..." (1:37)

Françoise tells Picasso, "... my grandmother died..." (1:39)

Picasso asks Françoise, "... to make you even more hysterical?" (1:41)

Picasso’s secretary Jaime Sabartés tells Françoise, "... some other idiot..." (1:42)

Picasso tells art dealer Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, "... It wasn’t sadism..." 
”... She’s dreaming of...” (1:43)

Françoise tells Picasso, "... you and I... drunk together..." (1:56)

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