Hello and welcome back to Thursday Movie Picks, the weekly series hosted by Wandering Through the Shelves where you share three movies to fit the theme of the week each Thursday.
We are back to normal aka movies, and this week's picks have to be about painters which made me realise there aren't a lot of movies about painters. Or maybe there are but I don't know them. Anyway, as much as I'd love to pick a movie about Van Gogh, there isn't one, so I decided to go with three painters married with fellow-painters.
Frida (2002)
As you can guess from the title, this film tells the story of Frida Kahlo, a famous Mexican painter as well as an interesting woman who channeled the pain of an injury and her tormented marriage with another painter into her work. Saw this one a while back, but I remember it was a quite beautiful biography, visually stunning and featured a great performance from Selma Hayek. The use of the English language instead of Spanish really bothered me though.
Big Eyes (2014)
It tells the story of Margaret Keane, a painter who had a phenomenal success in the 1950s but had legal difficulties with her husband because he took credit for her works. Although I wasn't expecting much from it, Tim Burton surprised me with this bittersweet comedy-drama that perhaps focuses too much on the husband, but still flows well and entertains. Also Amy Adams is fantastic in it. And Christoph Waltz is over the top, but at least he brings humour into the film.
The Danish Girl (2015)
It tells the story of Einar Wegener, a Danish painter who becomes obsessed with the idea of becoming a woman after his wife painted him as a lady. This was a major disappointment last year. It had so much to offer, but it just didn't engage me. It was cold and detached. But the performance from Alicia Vikander was fantastic. Can't say the same about Redmayne, he basically did Stephen Hawkins again.
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