EL ARTISTA Y LA MODELO

An aging painter and his wife discover a beautiful, waiflike young woman wandering the streets whom they take in as his model in this story by 1994 Oscar winner Fernando Trueba about artists and their muses.

This autumnal feature from Fernando Trueba, which he co-wrote with Jean-Claude Carrière, revitalizes the clichéd muse-artist dynamic against the historical backdrop of WWII. The film is richly textured, pairing the rugged sculptures and cracked studio walls with Aida Folch’s soft voluptuousness.