MODIGLIANI
Silicon Valley Best of the Best Heritage Award, SJJFF

Arriving like a comet, he danced on tables, drunk with passion for life and his ending was the tragedy of true genius like Van Gogh and Mozart.

It is 1919. The Great War is over and Paris nightlife is filled with dark passion and uncontrollable obsessions. In the café Rotonde, the refuge of the artistic elite, we find a table, unlike any other in history: Picasso, Riverra, Stein, Cocteau, Soutine, Utrillo and Modigliani.
This is the untold story of the bitter rivalry between Modigliani and Picasso. Two men whose envy of each other is fuelled by their brilliance, their arrogance, their passions.
It is also the story of the greatest love tragedy in art history. Jeanne Hebuterne was a beautiful young Catholic girl whose only fault, in her father’s eyes was to fall in love with Modigliani, a Jew. Driven by his religious bigotry, Jeanne’s father secretly sends their baby away to a convent in some far away place.

At the same time, Paris is preparing for an annual art competition. The prize is money and guaranteed career. But until this moment Picasso has never entered because he is Picasso. And Modigliani has never entered because he is Modigliani. But now Modigliani is cornered.
He and Jeanne need to save their child. Drunk with anger, soaked by rain, he bursts into the Rotonde, and watched by Picasso and all others, he puts his name in the competition. Picasso then enters and follows suite. Paris becomes frenzied with excitement.
Destiny will watch over this great night and the next day she will deal a hand that shaped all their lives for the rest of time.

Starring: Andy Garcia, Elza Zylberstein, Hippolyte Girardot, Omid Djalili, Peter Capaldi, Eva Herzigova