Product Details

• Directors: Janice Sutherland
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: January 23, 2001
• Run Time: 56 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000055XSU
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #169,299 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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The acknowledged "father of modern art" is profiled in this documentary, which is not merely informative but visually engaging. A number of artists and art historians comment on Paul Cézanne, making note that while details about his life are somewhat sketchy, we know he was a boyhood friend of writer Emile Zola, and he grew up to be a troubled loner who spent most of his career in obscurity. Cézanne was "obsessed with flesh, yet terrified of it," notes one expert in an interview, explaining the early work, examples of which are shown, which is filled with images of brutality and violence. Moving to Paris, Cézanne spent his days studying in the Louvre, found an unlikely influence in the music of Wagner, and eventually developed his distinctive style with its passionate use of color. Eventually, younger painters flocked to see him, citing the profound influence he was having on their work, but Cézanne, who felt his success and acceptance came too late, told would-be disciples he should have been born in their own time. This look at a fascinating character benefits from the inclusion of many of Cézanne's own works as well as reconstructions of scenes from the artist's life. --Robert J. McNamara

Customer Reviews

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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN, August 21, 2001

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A. KIRIAKOPOULOS "iceman" (Athens Greece) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cezanne: Three Colours Cezanne (DVD)

This is a DVD that you can watch many times.It is not only about the life and the innovations of Cezanne in painting but in a way it will explain many of the influences of his art in the modern world. It is really interesting even if you know everything about artist's life allready.

20 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Paul Cezanne - A total Painter, November 11, 2001

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Yair Haklai - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cezanne: Three Colours Cezanne (DVD)

Cezanne had the spirit of a rebel. This kind of rebel does not rebel for the sake of rebelling, but becomes one out of an inside necessity for freedom of expression.
Cezanne was a solitary person who spent more time with nature than with people. His involvement with people was that of a focused, penetrating spectator.
Being motivated in an intuitive way he invented multiple perspective approach
with several views in his painting. he invented surrealist painting and a great sensitivity toward angles.
He brought to painting new themes like apples from the focused view of a total painter, undisturbed by other matters. He invented new combinations of colors like green and blue, as in nature.
Cezanne is quoted as saying "Art is a parallel harmony to nature, it is not just about looking or copying
but about feeling too."
In his undisturbed expression of inner personal feeling in his painting, he was before his time and has to pay the price by not being accepted.
This DVD asks a question about the bathers in an un explained position and situation.
I think this picture is connected to the fact that Sezanne is connected to nature as much as
to people and he looks at people from a natural perspective of time and place. The real theme is
people as part of nature.
Cezanne is very sensitive to the individual person. He finds inspiration in ordinary people,
an inspiration paralleled in other artists like Anna Sokolow, who used as an example to ask her pupils
"have you seen Cezanne's apples?"