Surviving Picasso (1996)

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• Filmat în: Pinewood Studios

Surviving Picasso is a 1996 American biographical drama film directed by James Ivory and starring Anthony Hopkins as the famous painter Pablo Picasso. It was produced by Ismail Merchant and David L. Wolper. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay was loosely based on the 1988 biography Picasso: Creator and Destroyer by Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington.

Production

The film's ten-year genesis was protracted because Gilot declined to be involved. In Ivory's telling, "She told us she couldn't sell us the rights to her book because her children would be upset. Otherwise, she'd do everything she could to help.

Ivory told The Guardian that the budget had been $17 million; a Los Angeles Times article gave it as $17.2 million. In the Guardian interview, Ivory said that although Merchant-Ivory's budgets had increased since they began experiencing commercial success in the 1980s, "they are still less than half the cost of the average Hollywood film".

Location shooting took place in Paris and in the South of France; for the exterior shots of Picasso's studio, the filmmakers were able to use the actual location at rue des Grands Augustins, while the interior was recreated at Pinewood Studios.

After production had finished, Hopkins was publicly critical of Merchant-Ivory, with whom he had previously made Howards End and The Remains of the Day, telling The Los Angeles Times, "I was pretty angry at Ismail because they do spiteful things like not pay the crew. And they hold back money, to gain interest. They didn't pay me for a month... They'll take the stripes out of your socks.

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