Original subtitles

"Art is a lie that makes us realise truth"

The Adventures of Picasso

A thousand loving lies told by Hans Alfredson & Tage Danielsson

Picasso paintings recreated by Per �hlin

Made in "AB svenska ords atelj�er" in Hollywood close to Tomelilla [Sweden]

All similarities between this film and reality are entirely coincidental.

Hello, My name is Elsa Beskow and I'm going...

to tell you about one of my colleges in the art world...

Nobody know the exact hour of his birth...

It was either at 5 PM

"ala cinco de la tarde"

or during the midnight hour, which he himself claimed...

He, one of the strangest men of our time...

He, a decendent of the 16th century knight...

" Juan de Leon"

Who was killed in the war between Loja and Granada

He, Pablo Picasso...

whom was born in M�laga almost a century ago

Pablo was brought up in the poor area of M�laga

His mother - Do�a Maria - was...

Happy

Tender

Independent

Sensitive

Warm blooded

Proud

and affectionate

But his father - Don Jos� - was very sloppy in his work

The young Pablo Picasso soon proved to be quite artistic.

The proud father decided to introduce him to the art-academy in Madrid

"The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"

There was a genie in the bottle

a magical force that would make his art come to live

Madrid

The education at the academy was academic

Attention!

Coal!

One

Two

Fart!

Neither of his parents could ever come to grips with...

Don Jos�'s near death experience.

The tension at home grew odious for the young artist...

and he decided to leave.

It was the new years eve of 1899

The Parisians outside celebrated with Champagne...

dancing in the streets and fire-works.

Paris, 1910

Pablo Picasso was still poor and hungry

He paints and paints and paints

But selling and selling and selling he is NOT

That was the birth of Cubism

Picasso returned to the vagabonds in the circus world...

These warm hearted artistic souls...

whom - free of charge - gave there pathetic faces...

to the artist

The American author Gertrude Stein's salon...

was the centre of the French artworld...

and her constant companion...

her chaperon

Alice B. Toklas

Now Picasso was at the centre of the Parisian art world...

with people such as [John] Brack...

[Henri] Matisse...

Fernand Lege...

Pompidou...

entrec�te...

Carl Larsson...

Popeye [Karl-Alfred]...

Loulou...

Dodo...

Joujou...

Clo-clo...

Margot...

Frou-frou..

Jenny Nystr�m...

xxxx

Concelett...

an omelette...

and Rembrandt

And there is Hemmingway sitting with his knitting

There was also a Erik Satie the often misunderstood composer

Guillaume Apollinaire, the absurdist poet...

Henri Rousseau, the painting customs officer

Vincent van Gogh, the guy with the ear

And not less than two Toulouse-Lautrec

And the famous Mimi...

the woman that inspired Puccini to write "your hands are so cold"

What is a man, or even an artist other than a small flake...

in the vast and silent universe?

Well then!

Let's stop for a minute to examine the regular life...

of a lonely artist in the 1910's

Is there anything lonelier then a genius?

Th... that is relatively lonelier than a genius?

He rose early in the morning, put on his clothes...

humming of a cheerful morning-song...

and then he went outside...

to prepared himself for an intensive workday...

with a long brisk walk in "Bois de Boulogne"

LONG

BRISK!

He stopped every now and then...

to "skissa" [skissa similar to kissa=urinate]

Skissa=To sketch

Here the master is painting a pair of eyeglasses

A... a bicycle...

A painting!

Pablo Picasso continued wrestling with his art

The Swedish-American multi-millionaire...

Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim loved art...

and artists

Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim...

was one of the many people that didn't understand Picasso's work...

but she knew it was expensive, hence immortal.

Ingrid Svensson-Guggenheim became a persistent pester for Picasso

She strived to be part of his life and work, at any price

He fled to the tranquillity of nature

It's not easy being famous.

To make his friend happy...

the kind-hearted Rousseau invited Pablo...

and Apollinaire to his secret forest...

where no human-being had set foot except Rousseau himself.

Guillaume Apollinaire read one of his deeply philosophical poems...

about the human essence,

This was to be the onset to the memorable masquerade ball...

which Picasso held in his salon, in honour of his friend Rousseau.

What a fabulous crowd!

There was Jean Cocteau...

Enrico Caruso

Brack and Matisse was seen off the shelf

Marie and Pierre Curie

[Alexander] Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone-kiosk

Emperor Wilhem II was dancing with his elegant wife

There was Lenin

And the young Winston Churchill

Even the French president was there, dressed as a balloon

It was an unforgettable farewell party for Rousseau...

the little customs officer, the king of imagination!

The year was 1914

The future had never looked so bright...

workers and artists joined together...

people would never stand against each other...

faith in the international solidarity was equally strong as...

the faith in the blessing of the industrial era.

The optimistic view of development in the future was stronger than ever...

The machines were supposed to save the world!

Freedom [Libert�]

Equality [�galit�]

Fraternity [Fraternit�]

Would at long last come true

In short...

it was the time of a new dawn.

There would never be another war...

a new generation of artists came to Paris to build a better world.

And that's why Picasso made decorations and costumes...

for the famous Russian ballet

Djagilev's production, Erik Satie's music and...

Picasso's d�cor would dumbfound the world.

The world premi�re was in London.

Don Jos� was responsible for catering

It was three hours before the premi�re...

the tension was high.