Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This film is so packed with humorous details, that it takes several sittings to explore them all. If you have even a rudimentary knowledge in the languages spoken you will have plenty of fun as the dialog is truly basic - but also totally bizarre. There is a lot of wonderful art to look at too. Every painting shown could have been painted by the different artists portrayed. At the end of the movie there is a hilarious scene with Picasso having a medical exam by a Einstein-looking doctor that could be shown as a classic slapstick short film all by itself, it is very, very funny. One of my favorite characters in the film is the Nazi SS-officer with the rank of Hauptbahnhof (Main train station) who instead of saluting with the traditional "Heil Hitler!" yells "Halv liter!" (Swedish for 'Half Litre').

A wonderful film from the days when Swedish filmmakers and studios went with their hearts when making films. The humor and the absurd and lovable characters makes this one a all time favorite, as funny now as it was when i was a kid!The settings and costumes are great along with a kind of no nonsense language that i think everyone will understand, its a Swedish film for sure but don't worry you will not have any problems with that! How bizarre that American censors cut the film, for what i say?The movie has been re released now in Sweden, so if you search around for it you will find it!

I also picked up this film on VHS at an independent video store, and I was very taken with it. First, the film is a masterpiece of physical acting. Even thought they were speaking a number of different European languages, without subtitles, I had no problem understanding what was going on. It also makes wonderful use of surrealist imagery. I don't know a lot about Picasso, but I imagine someone who did would find this a fresh and entertaining take on the life of the man. Like a piece of Picasso's art, this movie is beyond language, I was left feeling like I knew how the man thought. If you enjoy physical comedy, this may be the most highbrow movie of that kind you'll ever see.

I found this at a local indie video store I used to frequent, and was a little surprised. But it is a good movie, with Picasso's life played for laughs(watch for Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Tolkas played by men in drag!)The humor alternates between the cerebral and the scatalogical, but it is an interesting little piece, proving that intellectuals can appreciate satire and comedy as well as anyone else.