Surviving Picasso

“Only his passion for women could rival his passion for painting.”

In 1943, Françoise Gilot (Natascha McElhone) is a young painter in occupied Paris when she meets Pablo Picasso (Anthony Hopkins), a man more than forty years her senior and already the most famous artist alive. James Ivory follows her into his studio and his household, where Dora Maar (Julianne Moore) is still living in the wreckage of her own years with him. Françoise has to decide how much of herself she can give him and still have a life of her own to leave with.