elsa zylberstein give a very irritating and mannered performance . every time that she scream or yell ( and she do that quite often in this movie ) you wonder if she understand english well enough to understand what she say . she also change accent several time throughout the course of the movie . garcia accent lapse from italian to brooklyn and ( which be odd consider he from la ) . plus he get old and fat . a a biography and it doesn not really stick to the fact and especially with regard to modigliani death . a a romance and it a love story between a drug addict or alcoholic and his punching bag or doormat or unfit mother or model . hardly romeo and juliet . a a tragedy and generally a movie about a tragic couple shouldn not make you think and phew . thank god those two aren not around breathe the same air a me anymore . a a period piece and it set in paris in the 1920 and film in rumania with an anachronistic soundtrack . a a movie about artist and aside from one nice sequence where picasso and modigliani converse with renoir at his estate and it seem to be this movie contention that painter spend most of their time drink absinthe and mistreat their wife or mistress and act like pompous egomaniac and occasionally fire or point gun at one another . pretty much a botched job from start to finish . writer and director and and cast should all hang their head in shame . ignore any positive comment you see here . don not waste your time or money on this nonsense .