modigliani be a difficult movie to review . it have some very strong feature such a the cinematography that capture the artsy feeling of paris 1919 and and despite excess and manages to create some visuals of hallucination and the wild madness of painter paint canvass while a rather complex peak into the life of several of the more revolutionary artist of the time while and a substantial feeling for the interchange between artist and model . the main problem with the film be a script that be banal and limited in historical validity and and concentrate on a single rather silly motif of a painter competition . amedeo modigliani ( 1884 1920 ) be a sephardic jew from italy who move to the mecca of paris to create his brilliant portrait and sculpture of nude and extend neck woman and girl . his genius lay in his unify the spiritual eastern iconography ( tribal art and judaism ) of his heritage with the christian ( read catholic ) tradition of the artist with whom he associate which result in his creation of the female nude from a feminist cultural perspective . what this film delivers be a rather annoy portrait of a young consumptive artist who drink and drug himself to death at a moment in his career when renown be just begin . the reason for his place in art history be merely hint all for the sake of the hollywood biopic . andy garcia play modigliani with a modicum of élan and a plethora of bad trait . the lovely model jeanne hébuterne ( elsa zylberstein ) who be the subject not only of his portrait but the mother of his illegitimate child and his live in paramour be a bit long in the tooth on suffering and though despite the fact that zylberstien be hamper by both a weak script and limited acting and she do have an uncanny resemblance to jeanne . the artist with whom modi work include a strangely miscast picasso ( omid djalili ) and chaim soutine ( stevan rimkus ) and maurice utrillo ( hippolyte girardot ) and diego rivera ( dan astileanu ) and zborowski ( louis hilyer ) and and the strangely non effeminate jean cocteau ( peter capaldi ) . dealer max jacob ( udo kier ) and gertrude stein ( miriam margolyes . ) be throw in with the harlequin and modi child spirit dedo ( frederico ambrosino ) for atmosphere . the storyline be one that could have easily be tell in the requisite time frame but modigliani tax the viewer attention for over two hour . so aside from a visually exciting experience there be really very little to be learn from this liquor and opium soak consumptive noisy melodrama that could have be about any one of the artist involve in the story . the genius of modigliani be barely tap . grady harp .