while this film look good it have the value of a pop clip which be indicate by the use of music represent either it from the wrong era ( edith piaf ) and just a french cliché and or just new age nonsense . but the big problem be the film deceive the audience with a tragic story and portrayal of the artist which be not true . furthermore andy garcia performance emphasize the unfair tragedy and a it be serene represent a if the world have pitch everything against him . the real modigliani be a very disturbed and self destructive and unpleasant man . he be an addict and alcoholic and prone to violence against woman and jeanne too who despite all that and could paint picture . his brain chemistry and personality would have be change from year of abuse . in the last year of his life and a this film be set and he be emaciate and eat only rarely and and toothless . not an attractive thing to look at on a movie screen . real poverty and addiction be not . in the last week of his life he have be drink very heavily and go home where the tubercolar meningitis and alcoholism catch up with him but he still insist that jeanne give him more to drink . the peril of an addict . he eat just sardine and and the account be his clothes and mattress be smear in sardine oil . at his end he be not beat but find by a neighbor in his apartment with jeanne cuddle beside the comatose painter . they have be in that position for 2 day . he be take to a hospital and die . jeanne saw him later and with her father and and it be say by witness that she do not kiss modigliani . she scream . there be no farewell scene and nothing tender just the death of a junkie and albeit one who paint well . if that have be on screen it would have knife an audience by it power . no one have decipher jeanne well represent impressionable young woman and devote and or perhaps a bit mad like the rest of modigliani circle of painter . when she commit suicide she underline modigliani life ( the value of his painting rise 800 % overnight ) and our complicity in enjoy tragic story about artist . this film have several defect and and it final one be the dedication to the daughter of modigliani and jeanne and who herself and die in 1984 and have an unhappy life . it a smug gesture . this film be probably about an artist and but it be not about modigliani .