Modi
About the Film
Paris, 1916. Over three chaotic, intoxicated days, the brilliant and self-destructive Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani careens through a wartime city that has yet to recognise his genius. Broke, drinking heavily and haunted by his own mortality, “Modi” ricochets between his loyal dealer, his fellow struggling artists and his tempestuous lover, the writer Beatrice Hastings.
After a wild night ends in a run-in with the police, Modigliani teeters on the edge of fleeing the city altogether — until a pivotal encounter with the powerful American art collector Maurice Gangnat forces him to confront what his work, and his life, are really worth. Johnny Depp’s second film as director paints a feverish, compassionate portrait of the artist as a young man on the brink.
Plot synopsis by johnny-depp.org.
Johnny Depp
Modì marks Johnny Depp’s second feature as a director, nearly three decades after his debut The Brave (1997) — and here he stays entirely behind the camera. A lifelong painter and lover of art himself, Depp brings a deep personal affinity to this study of Modigliani, shooting a woozy, atmospheric portrait of bohemian Paris and coaxing a raw central performance from Riccardo Scamarcio, with Al Pacino as the collector Gangnat.
Cast & Crew
Cast
Amedeo ModiglianiRiccardo Scamarcio
Maurice GangnatAl Pacino
Beatrice HastingsAntonia Desplat
Léopold ZborowskiStephen Graham
Maurice UtrilloBruno Gouery
Chaim SoutineRyan McParland
RosalieLuisa Ranieri
Crew
DirectorJohnny Depp
ScreenplayJerzy & Mary Kromolowski
Based on the play byDennis McIntyre
MusicSacha Puttnam
CinematographyNicola Pecorini
ProducersBarry Navidi, Johnny Depp
StudioIN.2 Film
Filming Locations
- Budapest, Hungary (standing in for 1916 Paris)
- Hungary studio sets
More about this film
Trivia
- It is Johnny Depp’s second film as a director, following The Brave (1997).
- The project was long championed by producer Al Pacino, who also appears in it as the collector Gangnat.
- It is adapted from Dennis McIntyre’s play Modigliani.
- The film had its world premiere at the 2024 San Sebastián International Film Festival.
