The Artist and the Model Movie Cast, Plot and Everything to Know

Summer of 1943. In an occupied France, not far away from the Spanish border, a famous old sculptor who is tired of life and wars finds the desire to work on his last masterpiece when a beautiful young Spanish girl comes knocking after escaping a refugee camp in the South of France.

Plot

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Plot

In German occupied France of 1943, an elderly sculptor and his wife live in a small town close to the Spanish border. Several years have passed since the 80 year old artist Marc Cros (Jean Rochfort) stopped sculpting. He has lived through two wars and is disillusioned by the world around him. One day his wife (Claudia Cardinale) brings home a young woman she sees in the streets. Her name is Merce (Aida Folch) and she is on the run from Franco’s army. The couple offer to shelter her in the sculptor’s workshop. While she is there, she models for what will be the last work by Cros. Slowly, a beautiful friendship is born between the young woman, whose life is just beginning, and the old man, who senses that his end is near.

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Top Cast

The lead cast starring in The Artist and the Model.

• J
  Jean Rochefort

  ... Marc Cros

  Man on the Train, Mr. Bean's Holiday

• C
  Claudia Cardinale

  ... Léa

  All Roads Lead to Rome, And Now Ladies and Gentlemen

• A
  Aida Folch

  ... Mercè

  The Island, Mondays in the Sun

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The film's director Fernando Trueba last directed The Island and The Queen of Spain. The film's writer Fernando Trueba last wrote The Queen of Spain.

Director

Fernando Trueba

Screenwriter

Fernando Trueba

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• "A quietly beautiful rumination on mortality and artistic inspiration that will delight patient, older audiences". –Neil Youngre, The Hollywood Reporter

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May 2013

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