Roland Penrose

Roland Penrose

Movies for Roland Penrose...

Un été à la Garoupe
Title: Un été à la Garoupe
Character: Self
Released: November 28, 2020
Type: Movie
La Garoupe, a beach in Antibes, in 1937. For one summer, the painter and photographer Man Ray films his friends Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Paul Eluard and his wife Nusch, as well as Lee Miller. During these few weeks, love, friendship, poetry, photography and painting are still mixed in the carefree and the creativity specific to the artistic movements of the interwar period.
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Lee Miller: Through the Mirror
Title: Lee Miller: Through the Mirror
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 19, 1996
Type: Movie
Biographical documentary of Lee Miller (aka Elizabeth Miller, 1907-1977), her early years in USA under her father's influence, later became a model turned artist and celebrated photographer, including her photojournalism during WWII, and her second marriage to British surrealism painter Roland Penrose postwar. Film is told through interviews with Miller's son, Antony Penrose.
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Miró: Theatre of Dreams
Title: Miró: Theatre of Dreams
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A biographical documentary on Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miro (1893-1983), renowned for his part in the 1920s surrealist movement in Paris in his exploration of the inner world of dreams and the unconscious in a range of works. The documentary traces his involvement at the age of 85 in putting together a strongly political theatrical piece with young actors under the banner of Claca theatre, a theatre ideally aimed to translate to performance anywhere and as a surreal vision of traditional Catalonian folk culture.
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La Garoupe
Title: La Garoupe
Character: himself
Released: December 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Home movie from Man Ray while on vacation with Pablo Picasso, Paul, Nusch and Cecile Eluard, Emily Davies, Valerie and Roland Penrose. The friends have fun with themselves and performing for the camera.
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L'Âge d'or
Title: L'Âge d'or
Character: Guest at the Marquis of X's Concert (uncredited)
Released: November 28, 1930
Type: Movie
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.