La banda Piccaso is a 2012 Spanish film directed by Fernando Colomo. A thriller film, it centers on Picasso and other real life painters in Paris in the early 1910s, the film being a depiction of real events associated with the 1911 robbery of the Mona Lisa and the fact that the French police suspected the involvement of the Spanish painter.
Cast
Ignacio Mateos: Pablo Picasso Pierre Bénézit: Guillaume Apollinaire Jordi Vilches: Manolo Hugué Lionel Abelanski: Max Jacob Raphäelle Agogué: Fernande Olivier Louise Monot: Marie Laurencin Alexis Michalik: Géry Pieret (Le Baron) Stanley Weber: Georges Braque Thomas Jouannet: Henri-Pierre Roché Cristina Toma: Gertrude Stein David Coburn: Leo Stein Eszter Tompa: Alice B.Toklas
Reception A critic from Fotogramas rated the film three out of five stars. A critic from Variety called the film ”a lively period piece about a footnote in the titular artist's life”. Accolades Nominated at the XXVII edición de los Premios Goya in two categories.
See also Two other films about the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa:
The Theft of the Mona Lisa The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
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