Although he’s best known for his acting career, Stanley Tucci also gets behind the camera every so often and he’s now done so for the first time in a decade with Final Portrait. The film follows American writer James Lord (Armie Hammer) as he sits for the final portrait by artist Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush). Following a premiere at this year’s Berlinale and ahead of a U.K. release this summer, the first trailer has now arrived.
“Enough footage of Alberto Giacometti exists to suggest that Geoffrey Rush is quite uncanny as the renowned surrealist sculptor in Final Portrait, a depiction of the seventeen days it took him to paint his last portrait, that of the American writer James Lord (played here by Armie Hammer),” we said in our review. “Based on Lord’s resulting 1965 book A Giacometti Portrait, it’s an elegant if somewhat unambitious piece of biographical work from writer-director Stanley Tucci, who has created — along with cinematographer Danny Cohen and art designer David Hindle (who worked with Rush before on Tom Hooper’s The Kings Speech) — a chicly grim vision of some of the shadier corners of the 1960s Parisian art scene.”
Check out the trailer below.
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Final Portrait hits U.K. theaters on August 18 and is awaiting a U.S. release date.