LUST FOR LIFE (1956)

VINCENTE MINNELLI

Drama 1900-1919 Classics Painting / Sculpture Art House Biopic Recommended Ade Tastics

Cast

KIRK DOUGLAS ANTHONY QUINN JAMES DONALD PAMELA BROWN

Plot

Vincent Minelli directs this biopic that, unusually for Hollywood, doesn't subsume the subject's achievements in a fictionalised life-story, explaining one not in terms of the other, but fully celebrating both. Douglas is superb as the artist living on the edge. Not just for art aficionados.