The Lovers of Montparnasse

Romance, Drama, History

🎬 Critics Choice Nominee

Director Jacques Becker

Status Released

Release Date 1958-04-04

Storyline

Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.