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Winner — Best Director — San Sebastian Film Festival
Official Selection — 2013 San Francisco International Film Festival
Official Selection — 2013 Miami International Film Festival
A film by
Fernando Trueba
Jean Rochefort Aida Folch Claudia Cardinale
Written by Fernando Trueba and Jean-Claude Carrière
Not Rated | 101 Minutes | 35MM | Scope | Black & White | French with English subtitles
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Summer of 1943. In occupied France,
not far from the Spanish border, a famous
old sculptor, who is tired of life and wars,
finds the desire to work again on his last
masterpiece when a beautiful young Spanish
girl comes knocking after escaping a
refugee camp in the South of France.
CAST
JEAN ROCHEFORT
AIDA FOLCH
CLAUDIA CARDINALE
GÖTZ OTTO
CHUS LAMPREAVE
CHRISTIAN SINNIGER
MARTIN GAMET
MATEO DELUZ
CREW
Director FERNANDO TRUEBA
Written by FERNANDO TRUEBA
and JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIÈRE
Executive Producer CRISTINA HUETE
Line Producer ANGÉLICA HUETE
Director of Photography DANIEL VILAR
Art Director PILAR REVUELTA
Costumes LALA HUETE
Editor MARTA VELASCO
Sound PIERRE GAMET
Make-Up / Hairdresser SYLVIE IMBERT
Fernando Trueba
director, writer, music producer
Fernando Trueba is a multi-award-winning writer, director and producer, with a career spanning
more than three decades in film, television, documentaries, theatre and music. Belle Epoque, starring ingénue Penelope Cruz, won both the Oscar and BAFTA for Foreign Language Film. Trueba enjoyed a brief flirtation with Hollywood with romantic comedy Two Much, starring Antonio
Banderas, Melanie Griffith and Daryl Hannah, but he returned to his native Spain with films such
as La Niña De Tus Ojos (The Girl Of Your Dreams), also starring Cruz, which premiered at the
Berlin Film Festival and netted seven Goya awards. Trueba’s Latin jazz documentary Calle 54
saw the birth of his collaboration and friendship with Javier Mariscal. In the concert film Blanco
Y Negro he brought together Cuban-born musician Bebo Valdés and Spanish flamenco star Diego
“El Cigala”, winning the Latin Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video. His documentary filmed in Brazil, El Milagro De Candeal (Miracle Of Candeal), won two Goya awards.
El Año De Las Luces (Year Of Enlightenment, 1986) won a Goya as well as the Silver Bear in
the Berlin Film Festival; The Mad Monkey (1989) won five Goya Awards; and El Embrujo De
Shanghai (The Shanghai Spell, 2001) was winner of three Goyas, El Baile De La Victoria (The
Dancer And The Thief) was Spain’s submission to the 2010 Academy Awards, and received 10
Goya nominations. Trueba’s last film, Chico and Rita, won the 2011 Goya Award for Best Feature Animation and was nominated for a 2012 Oscar for Best Animation Feature Film.
He began his career as the film critic of leading Spanish newspaper El Pais. Trueba’s published
works include his Dictionary Of Cinema.
“Highly seductive and
exquisitely crafted. A
film never anything
less than a pleasure to
watch.”
-Fionnuala Halligan
Screen Daily
“A quietly beautiful
rumination on mortality
and artistic inspiration
that will delight
audiences.”
-Neil Young
The Hollywood Reporter
“Exquisitely crafted…
Beautiful and inspiring.”
-Jonathan Holland
Variety
“The quietest, most
austere film Fernando
Trueba has directed. It
may also be his most
personal.”
-Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald
THE ARTIST AND THE MODEL
by Oscar Winner FERNANDO TRUEBA
®
This is a film I have carried within me for a long time.
For many years I have dreamed of making it.
It feels like it has been in the making, growing inside me all this time.
The Artist and the Model goes beyond being a mere self-portrait.
The Artist and the Model is the story of a man approaching the end of
his life, and his encounter with a woman who is only just beginning hers.
Like most artists, former and contemporary, Marc Cros has devoted his
life and his work to the pursuit of beauty. His subject matter has always
been the human body, and more specifically the female.
Through simplicity, through purity, Cros has been working in one
direction in an effort to reach the core of all forms; beauty in its purest
meaning.
At the age of 80 he lives isolated from the world and from work, waiting
for the end, without nostalgia and without hope. We´re in Germanoccupied France in 1943.
The appearance of Mercé, a young Spanish girl escaped from an Algiers
refugee camp will both complicate and reconnect him to his life.
So in the midst of these cruel and troubled times, our aged sculptor
decides to get back to work and focus on the one thing he knows best,
kneading thighs, shoulders, breasts, buttocks, arms, necks... of women.
He decides to give it one last shot.
This film “speaks” of great subjects, such as the act of creation, in its most
handcrafted sense, but most simple and profound too.
Life and death,
Youth and old-age,
Beauty in an age of horrors... aren´t they all?!
A film about the meaning and the need for art.
About the search of beauty.
theartistandthemodel.com