There are certain stories that are better if they remained untold. As a matter of personal taste I do not like Picasso's work. When saw the title, I purchased the video because I wanted to see who was the person behind the scribbles? Also because I always question why some good painters are unknown and will always be unknown and others achieve worldwide acclaim so undeservingly. This movie has good acting, by Anthony Hopkins (Silence of the Lambs) and Natasha McElhone (The Truman Show) and all the other actors are good. The story is well told. I just dislike Picasso very much. He treated all the women in his life like dirt. They all put up with him! They had low self-esteem and he destroyed the little they had left. The most amazing thing is that he had a wife and about five mistresses, and every place he went they all went, and put up with his mistreatment. The ambiguous man did not believe in God but kept all his hair and finger nails wrapped and dated, and kept by one of his mistresses because he was afraid of Black Magic! Picasso himself as a human being had no redeeming qualities.

While Françoise was pregnant with Paloma Picasso, he left for Poland for three weeks but remained in Poland for about four months. Every day Françoise would receive a telegram saying: Hugs and Kisses! I guess that where the famous Paloma Picasso (jewelry designer) got the idea for her famous design of hugs and kisses. The telegrams were not even sent by Picasso. The women who were involved with Picasso: One would get a sharp pointed knife and stab her hand with it and laugh while she bleeds. His wife became a crazy vagrant, who went around cursing him. Nobody was normal except Françoise, who almost lost her identity. His older son became Picassos' chauffeur because Picasso kept telling him that he was not good for anything. Françoise survived by leaving him after ten years. I would not have stayed with that man even for a day! In sum: this is a story about a jerk! Humans have somewhat an inborn desire to be good. Maybe I am naive! Most people can distinguish between good and evil. Picasso lacked that quality. I do not recommend this movie because the main character lack's morality and the core of the story has no social value, as most characters in the story allow themselves to be used to exploit the financial side of the name Picasso. This movie is about the use of someone's likeness for financial gain!