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The Mystery of Picasso + Rembrandt: Painter of Men

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Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot, Bert Haanstra
1956 / 98min / 35mm

“One of the most exciting and joyful movies ever made,” per The New Yorker’s Pauline Kael, The Mystery of Picasso provides a front-row seat to the creative process of the Spanish painter and 75-year-old living legend, observing, from the inverse side of a translucent easel, his real-time composition of marker drawings, collages, and oil paintings—works made for, and for the most part only preserved for posterity by, this singularly effervescent film. Preceded by Rembrandt: Painter of Men, a guided tour of the Dutch Golden Age master’s life and art as illustrated by the paintings in which he inscribed his autobiography.

The Mystery of Picasso (Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1956, 78 mins, 35mm)
Rembrandt: Painter of Men (Bert Haanstra, 1957, 20 mins, DCP)

Distributor: Kino Lorber

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