Lautrec

1998 [FRENCH]

Biography / Comedy / Drama

3
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 43%
IMDb Rating 6.6/10 10 743 743

artist painter biography portrait realism impressionist

Director

Roger Planchon Photo
Roger Planchon

Top cast

Elodie Frenck Photo
Elodie Frenck as M'dame Fourre-Tout
Micha Lescot Photo
Micha Lescot as Gabriel de Céleyran
Hervé Briaux Photo
Hervé Briaux as Dr. Semelaigne
Elsa Zylberstein Photo
Elsa Zylberstein as Suzanne Valadon
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1.15 GB
1280*536
French 2.0
NR
fr  us  cz  hu  ro  
24 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 23
2.36 GB
1920*804
French 5.1
NR
fr  us  cz  hu  ro  
24 fps
2 hr 7 min
Seeds 32

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by christian-bloodbank 10 / 10

i wish i could get it in theUS

I loved this film. I don't know much about the artist, so I can't say how true to his biography the story was, but much of the film looks like one of his paintings. It was a joy to watch. It includes many other known painters of the time. There's a lovely moment where Toulousse admires a painting of a shoe and asks to meet the painter (an intense man who speaks with a dutch accent).I was living in France when it came out and impatiently awaited it's release and went to see it at the earliest opportunity. I was not disappointed. I really wish I could get a copy here to show to friends. If you're in Europe I would suggest getting a copy of this movie and bringing it back to the US in a compatible form (DVD) and then showing it to anyone who's interested in the artist or in impressionists or in Parisian follies.
Reviewed by frank-43

Two-hour plus French biography of painter Toulouse-Lautrec

Though often visually stunning and with a fine sense of period detail, this French language bio lacks the fire and soul it needs. Despite generally excellent acting, Lautrec remains a series of pretty but rarely moving vignettes that ultimately become tedious going.
Reviewed by MarioB 9 / 10

Wonderful!

Realistic biography of the famous french painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. This time, the focus is not on his work or his life at the Moulin Rouge (like in the John Huston's movie of the same title) but on the life of Lautrec himself, espacially his love relation with his model Suzanne (played with great talent by the marvelous Elza Zylberstein). Like in Minnelli's Van Gogh biography (Lust for life, 1957), movie director Planchon makes painting with the camera, especially in the firt hour. The times and the soul of the period (end of the XIXe century) is well respected. Beautiful movie!
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