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.
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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.