One of the great mysteries in life is the process of creation. How a blank page or an empty canvas is transformed into something special by an artist. Many movies have dealt with that theme. But most of them, have failed to show that process in a realistic way.
Well, back in the 1950's French director Henri Georges Clouzot (Wages of Fear, Diabolique) decided to make a film on how Picasso would create a work of art. And suprisinghly Picasso agreed. So this movie consists on a series of empty canvas (the screen) in wich we see stroke by stroke how one of the 20th centuries most influential artists creates a painting or a sketch. No gimmicks. Just the real thing.
Sounds boring? Well, it isn't. It is fascinating. And as an extra touch, all the works that were created for this movie were destroyed, so that they would only exist in this movie.
This is just an amazing, unique movie. It played on Turner Classic Movies
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