Art in a state

Dedicated to rock musician Jeff Beck who died in 2023, Johnny Depp's second feature film in the director's chair is an unconventional and stylistically chaotic biopic of bohemian Italian painter and sculptor Amedeo Modigliani, who died penniless and underappreciated at the age of 35 in 1920 and never witnessed the rapturous response now lavished upon his work.

- with DAMON SMITH

Set in war torn Paris in 1916, Modigliani (Riccardo Scamarcio), known to friends as Modi, has a “minor disagreement with a stained-glass window” at a respected cafe and narrowly avoids arrest. Art dealer Leopold Zborowski (Stephen Graham) implores Modi to remain in the capital for two more nights so he can meet influential collector Maurice Gangnat (Al Pacino).