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GIACOMETTI AND JAMES LORD

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FINAL PORTRAIT—starring Geoffrey Rush as Alberto Giacometti and Armie Hammer as James Lord—recounts the friendship between the artist and his biographer.

Lord was a great intimate of Giacometti, Picasso, and Dora Maar. In addition to his Giacometti texts, Lord is the author of several memoirs recounting his times with Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Marie-Laure de Noailles, Jean Cocteau, Balthus, and Harold Acton. Lord’s last book was My Queer War, based on his experiences in the Second World War.

The film, directed by Stanley Tucci, co-stars Clémence Poésy, Sylvie Testud, and Tony Shalhoub as Diego Giacometti.

SXSW will host the North American premiere on Friday evening.

 

FINAL PORTRAIT, Friday, March 9, at 6 pm.

STATESIDE THEATRE, 719 Congress Avenue, Austin.

 

schedule.sxsw.com/2018/films

Opens March 23:

LAEMMLE ROYAL, 11523 Santa Monica Boulevard, West Los Angeles.

laemmle.com/films

nytimes.com/lord

Armie Hammer (left) and Geoffrey Rush in Final Portrait.

Final Portrait

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DOMESTIC POOLS AT VILLA NOAILLES

“Spaces intended for entertainment” has been an ongoing exhibition theme at Villa Noailles, and this year DOMESTIC POOLS will cover “vernacular and industrial types of private pools… which have left their mark on twentieth-century architecture.”*

Included in the show are works by Alvar Aalto, Ricardo Bofill, Albert Frey, Adolf Loos, Julia MorganRobert Mallet-Stevens (the villa’s architect), and Rem Koolhaas.

 

DOMESTIC POOLS, through March 18.

VILLA NOAILLES, Montée de Noailles, Hyères.

villanoailles-hyeres.com/festival-2018/en

See Francine du Plessix Gray, “The Surrealists’ Muse”: newyorker.com/the-surrealists-muse

Top left: Balthus, Marie-Laure de Noailles. Top right: Man RayMarie-Laure de Noailles.

Bottom: Domestic Pools. Image credit: Villa Noailles.

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