Film Screening: Cézanne et Moi (2016)

Thursday, May 5, 2022 at 7 p.m.

Fath Auditorium, Cincinnati Art Museum. Please enter using the DeWitt entrance. Free.

Join for this in-person screening with an introduction by Dr. Peter Jonathan Bell, Curator of European Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, and co-organizer of the special exhibition One Each: Still Lifes by Cézanne, Pissarro and Friends.

Cézanne et Moi traces the parallel paths of the lives, careers and passionate friendship of post-impressionist painter Paul Cézanne and novelist Emile Zola. The two boys grew up in Aix-en-Provence. Emile was fatherless and poor. Paul came from a wealthy family. As young men, dreaming of glory and beautiful women, they left the south to conquer the art scene in Paris. Soon Emile had it all, and embraced the very bourgeoisie he mocked in his books. Meanwhile, Cézanne rejected the Parisian scene to focus only on his work, ignored by his peers and the establishment.

113 minutes. French with English subtitles.

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