{"id":991630,"date":"2026-05-29T05:43:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/991630\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T05:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T05:43:24","slug":"a-leonora-carrington-biopic-traces-the-surrealist-icons-life-and-work-colossal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/991630\/","title":{"rendered":"A Leonora Carrington Biopic Traces the Surrealist Icon’s Life and Work \u2014 Colossal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cDon\u2019t you think it\u2019s dangerous to blur the distinction between abstraction and reality?\u201d asks actress Olivia Vinall in her role as the Surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington<\/a>\u00a0(1917-2011). The heady line is one of the standout statements in the new biopic documenting Carrington\u2019s life and work.<\/p>\n

Directed by Thor Klein and Lena Vurma and produced by Modern Films<\/a>, Leonora in the Morning Light<\/a> opens in 1930s Paris, when the artist was enmeshed in an avant-garde community that included luminaries like Salvador Dal\u00ed and Andr\u00e9 Breton, along with her partner Max Ernst. When World War II begins, Carrington flees to Spain before eventually re-settling in Mexico, perhaps the location most associated with her work.<\/p>\n

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The film is based on the biographical novel by Elena Poniatowska and comes at a time when Carrington\u2019s oeuvre is in the spotlight, particularly the fantastical work<\/a> made while she was confined to a psychiatric hospital in Spain which had been lost for 80 years.<\/p>\n

Modern Films is also behind the documentary<\/a> about pioneering artist Hilma af Klint, along with Boom For Real<\/a>, which chronicles Jean-Michel Basquiat\u2019s teenage years. Leonora in the Morning Light is slated for release on May 29 in the U.K. and Ireland.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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