Modern art films dedicated to the theme of art are not just a pleasant pastime behind the screen of a TV or laptop, but also a new, somewhat unexpected look at the well-known and generally accepted facts. The time spent watching movies about art is hours and minutes when everything rational goes to the background, and the main thing is the sensory perception of the picture.
Films about art are food for the soul, and most importantly, for the mind. We offer to learn about the best films about art that you should definitely watch in order to absorb the variety of emotional emotions and look at art and its representatives from a completely different angle.
Amadeus
- Year: 1984
- Genre: Drama, Historical, Musical, Biographical
- Country: USA
- Cast: Tom Hulse, F. Murray Abraham, Roy Dothris, Elizabeth Berridge and Simon Callow
Salieri is a well-known and status musician, whose life was turned upside down when he met the great future Mozart.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a delightful genius who violates both human and higher laws with his music. Amadeus’s music is unparalleled, because it fascinates and wins hearts. The Italian is not satisfied with such an injustice, so he is conceiving a number of insidious and unpredictable adventures. A man methodically brings his talented rival to unhappiness and frenzy. The ominous hoax of the man in black who ordered the Requiem became the apogee of cunning. Will a scoundrel be punished for his deeds?
Dancer
- Year: 2016
- Genre: Biographical, Documentary
- Country: USA
- Starring: Sergey Polunin
The documentary film tells about the modern dancer, whose name is forever inscribed in the story - Sergey Polunin. Already at the age of 17 he became a member of the London Royal Ballet troupe, and two years later he became the youngest troupe prime minister in history. Everyone knows him as a nonconformist, extraordinary and unpredictable hooligan. The scandalous case was his departure from the “Covent Garden” stage, when he left during the rehearsal and never returned. He did not abandon the ballet, but simply decided to do it in Russia, becoming the most prominent and sought-after ballet dancer. At the same time, the film will tell us about growing up and the independent life of a man, his family and the future.
Marina Abramovich: In the presence of an artist
- Year: 2012
- Genre: Documentary, Drama
- Country: USA
- Cast: Marina Abramovich, Klaus Biesenbach, Ulay, Krissy Isles and David Balliano
The film tells about the life of a famous Serbian artist. Marina Abramovich has been on the verge of success and scandal all her life. Her creativity and people's perception have always been a block for communication, but an excellent stimulus for self-development and the realization of creative potential. Documentary film tells about the life and work of women, which is simply impossible to love. Many admire her paintings and do not understand how such images were born in the head of an ordinary girl.
La La Land
- Year: 2016
- Genre: Musical, Drama, Melodrama
- Country: USA
- Cast: Ryan Gosling, John Legend, Emma Stone, Rosemary DeWitt and J. K. Simmons
Mia is an ordinary girl working as a waitress in a cafeteria at a film studio who dreams of becoming the second Ingrid Bergman, but failing all the tests and castings. Sebastian is a man who collects great jazz music and dreams of opening his own jazz cafe. He plays simple music in a restaurant, but he dreams of something great, like Mia. Once they are destined to meet, and they will do it more than once before falling in love with each other. Now they can dream together, but is it possible to combine family and ambitious ambitions? Will they be able to reach the goal together and what will they choose, world fame or home comfort?
Van Gogh. Love, Vincent
- Year: 2017
- Genre: Biographical, Crime, Drama
- Country: United Kingdom
- Cast: Helen McCrory, Sirsha Ronan, Aidan Turner, Chris O`Dowd and Elinor Tomlinson
Vincent Van Gogh is a famous Dutch post-impressionist artist, who will be discussed in the film. It is worth noting that the film turned out to be unique, because a hundred artists from all over the world worked on it, creating an animated feature film with the help of 65,000 paintings made in the same technique that Wang Gogh himself painted. The artist's life ended at 37, when he shot himself with a revolver, after which he returned to the guesthouse, where he died two days later. The events of the film take place a year later, after his death, when the owner of the guesthouse finds letters from Van Gogh written to his brother.
Best offer
- Year: 2012
- Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
- Country: Italy
- Starring: Geoffrey Rush, Sylvia Hooks, Jim Sturgess, Philip Jackson and Donald Sutherland
The drama will tell its audience about the meeting of the director of the auction house with the mysterious lady and the consequences of this acquaintance. Virgil Oldman is a director who is fully focused on the purchase of cult values and lives all alone. He is a true professional, as he can tell a fake from a real masterpiece at a glance.Claire Ibbitson - a woman who calls a collector and asks to evaluate her home furniture. He tries to see her several times, but all his efforts are in vain, as she has agoraphobia and she is afraid to leave the room. It attracts an avid bachelor, but how will the game of the invisible woman end?
Midnight in Paris
- Year: 2011
- Genre: Adventure, Melodrama, Comedy
- Country: USA
- Cast: Owen Wilson, Marion Cotillard, Rachel McAdams, Michael Sheen and Leah Seydoux
In the center of the plot is a young couple of Americans who flew to Paris to rest. Iness and Gil find themselves in the half-illusory world of unfulfilled fantasies, which is able to translate their desires and dreams into reality. Gil is fond of the twenties of the last century, and how his surprise was when on the streets of the night city he begins to meet those whom he idolized throughout his life. It seems that a man has failed through time, because Hemingway, Picasso and other prominent personalities stroll along the streets with him.
Frida
- Year: 2002
- Genre: Melodrama, Drama
- Country: USA
- Cast: Salma Hayek, Valeria Golino, Alfred Molina, Jeffrey Rush and Ashley Judd
Frida, who was still in her youth in a terrible accident, broke her spine. All doctors put an end to her full life and do not believe that she will be able to stand up. Lying in a cast, the girl draws self-portraits, trying to distract from reality. Despite the terrible predictions of doctors, she begins to learn how to walk and returns to her past life. Now she is a well-known artist, who showed her talent, who agreed to marry Diego Rivera, a classic womanizer. A man is faithful to Frieda only in thoughts, as he constantly changes her, justifying himself with polygamous nature. The girl each time forgives her lover, continuing to struggle every day with the consequences of that terrible accident.
