{"id":53610,"date":"2025-07-10T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53610\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T08:12:09","slug":"modigliani-three-days-on-the-wing-of-madness-review-johnny-depps-painter-as-bohemian-badass-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/53610\/","title":{"rendered":"Modigliani \u2013 Three Days on the Wing of Madness review \u2013 Johnny Depp\u2019s painter as bohemian badass | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some very cliched roistering, life-affirming wine-drinking, bourgeois-defying artistic shenanigans here from the veteran screenwriting couple Jerzy and Mary Olson-Kromolowski who have adapted a 1980 stage play, Modigliani by Dennis McIntyre, about the Italian sculptor and painter Amedeo Modigliani, known as Modi. Johnny Depp<\/a> directs and perhaps sees his subject as a bohemian badass not unlike Hunter S Thompson, whom he played in Terry Gilliam\u2019s 1998 movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas \u2013 and perhaps not altogether unlike how he sees himself.<\/p>\n

It is 1916 in Paris and the brutality of war is destroying the belle \u00e9poque; Riccardo Scamarcio plays Modigliani, a brilliant, sensual but penniless artist facing poverty and casual antisemitism. Having got into a chaotic affray at a pompous posh restaurant \u2013 filmed like a deleted scene from Richard Lester\u2019s The Three Musketeers \u2013 Modigliani has to lie low from the police and dreams of quitting Paris, to the bewilderment of his quaintly imagined artist comrades Maurice Utrillo (Bruno Gouery) and Cha\u00efm Soutine (Ryan McParland), and his lover (and subject) Beatrice Hastings (Antonia Desplat).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

But according to his longsuffering dealer L\u00e9opold Zborowski (Stephen Graham) he has to wait three days for a certain wealthy collector to hit town \u2013 a collector that Zborowski assures Modigliani is interested in his work; this is Maurice Gangnat, played in cameo by Al Pacino. So Modigliani must go to ground, restlessly haunting the streets and the lowlife nightspots pursued by his own demons.<\/p>\n

This lavishly produced and costumed European co-production is handsomely cast \u2013 but the range of talent here feels wasted on what is a fundamentally dated and stereotypical drama, whose Bohemian passion is diluted. Scamarcio does his best and he is arguably the best actor for the job, but there is something rather shallow here.<\/p>\n

Modigliani \u2013 Three Days on the Wing of Madness is in UK cinemas from 11 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some very cliched roistering, life-affirming wine-drinking, bourgeois-defying artistic shenanigans here from the veteran screenwriting couple Jerzy and Mary…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-53610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114827935416307654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}