Cézanne et Moi

Name: Cézanne et Moi
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: March 31, 2017
Duration: 117 min
Rating: 54

2017

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: March 31, 2017 | R

Summary: Cézanne Et Moi traces the parallel paths of the lives and careers of post-impressionist painter Paul Cézanne and novelist Émile Zola, from school pals in Aix-en-Provence to working artists in Paris, while exploring their fears and ambitions. Through a slew of flashbacks, we see the two grow up to share a mutual love of art and beautifulCézanne Et Moi traces the parallel paths of the lives and careers of post-impressionist painter Paul Cézanne and novelist Émile Zola, from school pals in Aix-en-Provence to working artists in Paris, while exploring their fears and ambitions. Through a slew of flashbacks, we see the two grow up to share a mutual love of art and beautiful women. Zola, who was fatherless and poor, dreams of becoming a writer and eventually joins the very bourgeoisie he mocked in his youth. Meanwhile Cézanne, who came from a wealthy background, wound up rejecting society to focus entirely on his work, which was only recognized at the very end of his life. [Magnolia Pictures]… Expand

Director: Danièle Thompson

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 117 min

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RogerEbert.com Susan Wloszczyna

Mar 30, 2017

Cézanne et Moi is at its most intoxicating whenever it looks and acts like a landscape painted by its title 19th-century French artist. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Mar 30, 2017

Cézanne et Moi offers a pungent, demystifying portrait of the rowdy late-19th-century Parisian art world where famous painters and poets mingled and jostled for position at dinner parties and art openings filled with shoptalk, backbiting and intrigue. Read full review

The Film Stage Ryan Swen

Apr 3, 2017

Cézanne et moi alternates between frustrating and engaging, but there is no doubt that its soberness in the face of luxury and genius, and its fidelity, despite some slight shallowness, linger on. Read full review

Chuck Wilson

Mar 29, 2017

The film gains power in the final third...one wishes Thompson had chosen to view the great artist's lives through the eyes of the women who loved (and tolerated) them Read full review

Peter Debruge

Mar 30, 2017

The cinematic equivalent of calendar art. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Mar 29, 2017

Intensive research has killed many a biopic, but Cézanne Et Moi, which recounts the tempestuous lifelong friendship between Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola, labors even more tediously than most to accommodate personal details, whether or not those details serve the narrative. Read full review

Keith Watson

Mar 26, 2017

The film barely even scratches the surface of the animating force of Cézanne and Zola's lives: their art. Read full review

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GinaK

Apr 13, 2017

What a dull film, and I am not quite sure whose fault the dullness was. Perhaps it was the script. Zola was portrayed as a bourgeois writer who made a lot of money by hacking away every day dressed in a suit and giving polite dinner parties. Cezanne painted all the time and resented his lackWhat a dull film, and I am not quite sure whose fault the dullness was. Perhaps it was the script. Zola was portrayed as a bourgeois writer who made a lot of money by hacking away every day dressed in a suit and giving polite dinner parties. Cezanne painted all the time and resented his lack of recognition. Maybe it was the total lack of a sex life for either man, although at the end, we read that Zola eventually had one. So why not make a movie about that? Cezanne just spends his time painting and scowling and feeling resentful and hurt by Zola’s cutting remarks (Zola calls him “a stillborn genius” near the end of the film). Why make a movie about this apparently dull subject? The acting was good and Provence is always easy on the eyes, but even if this film is historically accurate, why make it at all?… Expand

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