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  • 2018
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary Final Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti, as seen through Lord’s eyes and revealing unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes the chaos of the artistic process. Set in 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, Lord is...

Directed By: Stanley Tucci

Written By: James Lord, Stanley Tucci

  • 2018
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • Sony Pictures Classics
  • 1 h 30 m

Final Portrait

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
70
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 22 User Ratings
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Summary Final Portrait is the story of the touching and offbeat friendship between American writer and art-lover James Lord and Alberto Giacometti, as seen through Lord’s eyes and revealing unique insight into the beauty, frustration, profundity and sometimes the chaos of the artistic process. Set in 1964, while on a short trip to Paris, Lord is...

Directed By: Stanley Tucci

Written By: James Lord, Stanley Tucci

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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72% Positive
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28% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 32 Critic Reviews
70
72% Positive
23 Reviews
28% Mixed
9 Reviews
0% Negative
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90
Mar 22, 2018
Final Portrait is quietly involving, amusing in a shaggy-dog-story way and impeccably made.
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83
Feb 17, 2017
Though the film is all surface, that surface is precisely the point.
By Ben Croll FULL REVIEW

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Mixed or Average Based on 22 User Ratings
5.7
32% Positive
7 Ratings
50% Mixed
11 Ratings
18% Negative
4 Ratings

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justwibi
Sep 3, 2018
what a performance by Geoffrey Rush! i love the feel like watching a play in here. with an ensemble cast and good story telling.
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GinaK
Apr 20, 2018
It takes about 20 minutes for this film to find its feet, but once it does, it is hilarious and revelatory. I laughed a lot and really enjoyed its insights into how art is made – by human beings. If you worship artists as saintly human beings, this is not the movie for you. Everyone is wonderful, especially Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer who head the cast.
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78
Apr 18, 2018
The magic of the film lies in Tucci’s eye for a sense of place – Paris in the Sixties.
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75
Mar 21, 2018
In Final Portrait, art achieves a permanence that trumps an evanescent feast. What holds us through all the exasperating starts and stops is Rush, a live-wire actor of such effortless charisma that we’re drawn to his every utterance and gesture. Hammer, as a stand-in for the audience, can only stare in wonder as we do.
By Peter Travers FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 17, 2017
Amusing but slight, the small-scale film is elevated by a spirited characterization from Geoffrey Rush as mercurial artist — is there any other kind in movies? — Alberto Giacometti.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW
50
Apr 12, 2018
This film might give you the urge to check out a comic-book movie.
By Calvin Wilson FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 18, 2018
As seen through James Lord’s eyes, the dramas and passions on display throughout the film come off as melodramas and grotesqueries.
By Oleg Ivanov FULL REVIEW
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DawdlingPoet
Nov 26, 2021
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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JLuis_001
Jun 19, 2019
It's not the most agile or dynamic film that one can find and I think more than one spectator will despair because the story is not new or more striking for that matter and it's strange to say that of a well done and well acted film but it's the truth, this is not an attractive film. Watching it will depend a lot on your criteria and interests
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Bizzylorenzo70
Aug 1, 2018
Not for everyone, one must have the patience to stay with this well acted but deliberately paced and, at times, disjointed movie. However for me, the subtle humor, eccentricity of the characters and the storyline made the experience worthwhile.
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geewah
Jan 9, 2021
Geoffrey Rush is always a pleasure to watch, but he can't make up for how boring & self-indulgent this movie is.
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jhep
May 2, 2018
Geoffrey Rush and director Stanley Tucci have set themselves the task of proving that Alberto Giacometti was nothing less than THE most boring man that ever lived !!!…..the Good News is that they succeed in establishing this fact ``beyond a reasonable doubt`` within the first 20 minutes of the **** Bad News is- what do you do with the next hour or so your movie ?…..Sadly this viewer will never know because he was called away by an urgent call from his dry cleaners and quitted the cinema faster than you can say “Will you have fries with that ?”
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Production Company Potboiler Productions, Riverstone Pictures, Olive Productions, Lowsun Productions
Release Date Mar 23, 2018
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline The search for perfection never ends
Website http://sonyclassics.com/finalportrait/
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Awards

British Independent Film Awards
• 1 Nomination

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