The film tells the story of Amedeo Modigliani's bitter rivalry with Pablo Picasso while Pablo Picasso has already established himself in the art world, and his tragic romance with Jeanne Hebuterne.
Modigliani is slow, shamefully cliched and disjointed as a cubist portrait.
Los Angeles Daily News
May 13, 2005
Director Mick Davis shows little if any imagination in presenting the troubled genius or the remarkable Montparnasse art scene of the World War I era, and that's the real bummer.
Boston Phoenix
October 29, 2005
Just another artistic sacrifice to life's ironies, cruelties, and bad filmmakers.
The best and maybe the only use to be made of the catastrophic screen biography Modigliani is to serve as a textbook outline of how not to film the life of a legendary artist.
TV Guide
July 01, 2005
The real-life Modigliani did indeed live a short, tragic life, but this factually inaccurate, plodding film makes it feel twice as long.
Thanks to writer-director Mick Davis, the film, like its subject, dies young.
New York Daily News
July 01, 2005
It's hard to take this oddball movie seriously, right down to the undisguised streetwise-American accent of Andy Garcia as the Italian Jew Amedeo Modigliani.
Filmcritic.com
May 11, 2005
Modigliani's problems lie in its contentment with superficial clichés
New Times
July 07, 2005
No one expected a documentary, but serious art-history students may feel let down.
Time Out
August 16, 2007
Instead of trying to provide insight into this genius's debilitating madness, Davis prefers to wallow in incoherent and clichéd misery, punctuated by poetically oblique imagery.
