original title:
Modi - Three Days on the Wing of Madness
italian title:
Modi - Tre giorni sulle ali della follia
directed by:
cast:
Riccardo Scamarcio, Stephen Graham, Al Pacino, Antonia Desplat, Bruno Gouery, Luisa Ranieri, Ryan McParland, Sally Phillips
screenplay:
Jerzy Kromolowski, Mary Olson-Kromolowski, from the play "Modigliani: A play in three acts" by Dennis McIntyre
cinematography:
Nicola Pecorini, Dariusz Wolski
editing:
Mark Davies
set design:
David Warren
costume design:
Penny Rose
music:
Sacha Puttnam
producer:
Barry Navidi, Johnny Depp, Stephen Malit, Andrea Iervolino, Jason Forman, Viktória Petrányi, Sam Sarkar, Stephen Deuters
production:
world sales:
country:
UK/Italy/Hungary
year:
2024
film run:
114'
format:
colour
release date:
21/11/2024
festivals & awards:
A seventy-two-hour whirlwind in the life of bohemian artist Amedeo Modigliani, known as ‘Modi’ to his friends, follows a chaotic series of events through the streets of war torn Paris in 1916. On the run from the police, the desire to end his career and leave the city is dismissed by fellow artists Maurice Utrillo, Chaim Soutine and Modi’s muse, Beatrice Hastings. Modi seeks advice from his art dealer and friend, Leopold Zborowski - however, after a night of hallucinations, the chaos in Modi’s mind reaches a crescendo when faced with an American collector, Maurice Gangnat, who has the power to change his life.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES:
Dennis Hopper once said that quote: “If it were denied you to create, would you truly die?” and I think for Amedeo Modigliani, the answer was ‘Yes.’ He was at the mercy of his talents and his mercurial nature. There was no other avenue available to him. No other avenue he would have ever considered. Even after he destroyed everything, there was only one path to take: start over again, for he was born to create. Ultimately, I wanted to tell a universal tale of love, art and rejection so that anyone could find something to wrestle with, something to associate and connect with, in that infinite tangle we know only as life, as existence, the very result of creation itself.