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The Picasso Summer is a american film of genre Drama directed by Robert Sallin released in USA on 8 august 1969 with Albert Finney
The Picasso Summer (1969)
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Add to a movie listThe Picasso Summer is a 1969 drama directed by Serge Bourguignon and Robert Sallin, starring Albert Finney and Yvette Mimieux. The screenplay was written by Ray Bradbury (using the pseudonym of Douglas Spaulding) based upon his short story, "In a Season of Calm Weather."
Future Academy Award winner Vilmos Zsigmond was the cinematographer. There were two directors. Serge Bourguignon was the original director whose rough cut was rejected by Warner Brothers. Another director, Robert Sallin, was hired to re-shoot some scenes and to do the changed ending. Even with the reworked scenes, the movie was never released to theaters in the United States. It was sold for distribution to TV networks and stations with Salin receiving the director's credit.
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George Smith (Albert Finney) is a middle age San Francisco architect in mid-life crisis and dissatisfied with the extent of his professional career, as his latest project is nothing more than a warehouse. After he and his wife Alice (Yvette Mimieux) attend a large party they go home and reassess their lives. George remembers how he used to admire Pablo Picasso so much when he was in college and suddenly proposes to his wife that they go to Europe and find Picasso. As they travel through numerous places in France and Spain they meet a number of interesting people but George's obsessive quest begins to wear on Alice. They never actually find Picasso, and in a typical Hollywood ending, they walk off into the sunset after reaffirming their love for each other.Actors
Albert Finney
(George Smith)
Yvette Mimieux
(Alice Smith)
Georgina Cookson
(British Woman at Dinner)
Theo Marcuse
(The Host (as Theo Marcuse))
Tutte Lemkow
(l'ivrogne)
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