That culture-vulture, James Ivory, circles this time around a book without cachet, a disreputable bit of scholarship by Arianna Huffington. The cachet resides entirely in its subject, the Big Cubist, the very embodiment of Modern Art, reduced here to a woman-devouring monster, reduced additionally to a scenery-chewing villain in the central storyline of the liberation of Françoise Gilot. (The character, however, is called only by her first name, since the real person withheld approval.) The final reduction comes from the necessity of using pastiches as samples of Picasso's work. With Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Julianne Moore, Diane Venora, Joan Plowright. (1996) — Duncan Shepherd
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