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Final Portrait

The search for perfection never ends

Rating 6.0 / 10Release August 3, 2017Runtime 87 min

Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti, one of the most accomplished and respected artists of his generation, asks his friend, the American writer James Lord, to sit for a portrait, assuring him that it will take no longer than two or three hours, an afternoon at the most.

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