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Georgia O'Keeffe
Product Type: DVD
Product Price: $24.94
Manufacturer: Lifetime
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Description
Star-studded movie about the famous artist. Celebrated photographer and art impresario Alfred Steiglitz (Jeremy Irons) is shocked to learn that the extraordinary drawings he has recently discovered were rendered by a woman. Deciding to display the work of then-unknown artist Georgia O’Keeffe (Joan Allen) in his gallery without her knowledge, the fiercely private artist orders him to remove the collection. Once Alfred convinces her to allow him to become her benefactor and to champion her artistry, their relationship evolves as they fall deeply in love. Alfred leaves his wife for Georgia, but soon finds her rising star is poised to eclipse his light. As their relationship suffers, Alfred finds twisted ways to emotionally wound her, including taking a younger lover. Georgia’s search for solace moves her west, where she finds new inspiration for her paintings – and ultimately her own voice – in the New Mexico landscape.
While there are numerous documentaries about the iconoclastic modernist painter Georgia O'Keeffe, there has been a dearth of dramatized renditions of her life. Maybe the waiting has not been in vain, because we now have this lovely and respectable biopic courtesy of director Bob Balaban. Georgia O'Keeffe stars Joan Allen as Georgia, and Jeremy Irons as the astute yet eccentric gallerist and artist Alfred Steiglitz. Though the couple's artistic reign was extensive and highly influential, the crux of this film's narrative centers on Georgia and Alfred's tumultuous love affair. Beginning with a scene in which Steiglitz is already exhibiting O'Keeffe's work, they meet on conflicting terms that lead to her staying in New York as Steiglitz quickly falls in love with her enigmatic charm. From here, the viewer begins to understand how Steiglitz fortified O'Keeffe's career and reputation in the art world, while he was detrimental to her personal life. Though the film does clearly sympathize with O'Keeffe's challenging relationship to Steiglitz, it also does a fair job of showing how important a character he was to the modern art movement. While Georgia O'Keeffe is a drama and not an art historical documentary, it does give one a solid sense of the period's intellectual climate. It focuses chronologically on the latter half of O'Keeffe's life, when she discovers solace and inspiration in Taos and Abiquiu, New Mexico. In the end, the film is also a tender portrait of a liberated woman who was a protofeminist and a fierce talent. --Trinie Dalton
Reviews
Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2010-07-05
Summary: "O'Keeffe would have liked Joan and Jeremy"
One has to admire the effort to do this right on a TV budget.
Worked on this project and all were totally committed from stand-in to star.
Enjoy it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-23
Summary: "Fascinating life story!"
Georgia O'Keeffe had a remarkably fascinating life story. Though not a happy one in many ways. My family enjoyed this story immensely. Joan Allen and Jeremy Irons are fabulous. I would definitely recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-18
Summary: "Georgia O'Keeffe's muse turns out to be a devil in disguise"
I know that Lifetime runs a lot of movies, because it is usually one of my wife's default channels on the television, but when I rented this DVD I did not know that "Georgia O'Keeffe" was had already aired and that she had already seen it. She warned me that it was going to be depressing, which is invariably the case when you depict the life of a painting, amply proven by movies on everybody from Michelangelo and Vermeer to Van Gogh and Kahlo . But no matter how wretched their existence might be, at least the rest of us got some beautiful paintings out of it. As for this movie, it might be tempting to say it is too good for Lifetime, but the more important conclusion is that the network gets some serious points for putting together a biopic of this caliber.
The script by Michael Cristofer is primarily about the tortured but all important relationship O'Keeffe (Joan Allen) had with photographer Alfred Stieglitz (Jeremy Irons), beginning with their first meeting when she discovers he is displaying her drawings in his gallery without her permission in 1916 and ending with his death in 1946. In the opening lines, O'Keeffe declares, "I don't trust words. Words and I are not good friends at all." Stieglitz has words of plenty and despite her stated maxim, O'Keeffe falls for them. Their life together is a painful collision of the professional and the personal, for every step he takes to advance her career comes at a price. Part of the pain in watching this play out is that it takes O'Keeffe so long to figure out the price is too high, although it is clear that she and Stieglitz will only be parted by death (and even then). I loved Stieglitz's egotistical argument that she is more important than he is, but that he is more than half of the relationship, because it so perfectly encapsulated his selfish view of a universe in which he is the brilliant giant gas bag at the center.
For me the high point of the film is when O'Keeffe suffers a nervous breakdown while painting a mural for the ladies powder room at Radio City Music Hall. I am unable to find anything that indicates whether or not what we see is a reproduction of the original mural (which was abandoned), the use of a later O'Keeffe painting or something original based on her work (or, in that case, who painted it). But it is a gorgeous painting, the most memorable one seen on screen, and, of course, I would love to have a wall in our bedroom painted like that, to which I would then color coordinate everything else. Beyond the art, the symbolic nature of the scene stands out as well. I appreciate that director Bob Balaban's movie does not attempt to make any obvious connections between her life and her art, beyond the obvious shift in what she painted when she moved from New York City to northern New Mexico. We also get to see a lot of O'Keeffe's art from the period covered, although we are rarely given the time to really enjoy it (that is what Internet searches are for, boys and girls).
It will come as no surprise that Joan Allen turns in a riveting performance as the title character. Allen is my pick for the best actress who has not yet won an Oscar, a state of affairs I thought would be rectified by "The Upside of Anger," but she did not even get a nomination. The common element I would draw between the two is that, in keeping with O'Keefe's opening lines, is what Allen can evoke with her silence. Equally good is Jeremy Irons, who has a history of playing men who are less than nice, epitomized by his Oscar for "Reversal of Fortune," although I think this performance is better. Both were nominated for Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild awards for these roles. In the end, I round up on this film because their fine performances outweigh any dissatisfaction I have with the relationship being depicted. Judging proto-feminists from a contemporary perspective is almost always going to be inherently harsh.
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-12
Summary: "One Hell of a great movie !"
This movie is great - in that it captures some of the interpersonal interactions that Georgia has with her lover. Unfortunately, I don't believe that this, or any movie, would be able to adequately capture the conflicts that Georgia deals with vis-a-vis the Culture at large - but it takes a stab at doing so.
Many of the compositional shots throughout the movie - are breath-taking - and one just gets a touch of flavor that drew Georgia to the South West.
See it. Tell your friends.
Bob Allen
Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-05-16
Summary: "First Rate, Easy to Watch More Than Once"
This is a first rate movie highly recommended to the non-fiction crowd. I also found it educational, having never been much good at art history. The actors are unknown to me, but are in this movie superb in every respect.
With a tip of the hat to John Pierce who identified it in comment, also recommend:
Pollock