‘Bonnard, painter and muse’: an artistic and loving frenzy

Manager: Governor Martin

Artists: Cécile de France, Vincent Macaigne, Stacy Martin

Year: 2023

Premiere: 8/30/24

★★

He was somewhat influenced by Impressionism and more obviously by Paul Gauguin. Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) was a painter characterized by his own characteristics portraits of naked womenIt was challenging for the time and he did not shy away from a more profitable job: advertising illustration.

Like any good ‘biography’, ‘The Painter Bonnard and His Muse’ dissects the artistic form, Conflicting relationship with MarieThe humble class girl he falls in love with and who changes her name to Marthe to appear more aristocratic.

Pierre and Marthe, played by Vincent Macaigne and Cécile de France, continue one of these passionate and sometimes self-destructive relationshipsseparations and reconciliations, madness and estrangements. In its final section, after addressing the abyss of madness so common in French films about artists with these characteristics, the film explores another relationship of the painter with a new model and muse.

Sometimes it’s weird, very fast ellipses fading to black. In others, the relationship becomes too histrionic, although compelling. It shows very well how Bonnard creates his art, but in some blocks, he gets lost in that wave of emotion, one step away from the madness of love, amidst arguments, jealousies, screams.