A unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter paula rego directed by her son, the filmmaker nick willing. For a better experience on mubi, update your browser. Nick willing is a british director, producer and writer of films and television series. The visual artist paula rego is most famous for her abstract paintings depicting women. Her son nick willing directed a documentary on her life paula rego. The portuguese have a culture that lends itself to the most grotesque stories you can imagine. Notoriously private and guarded, rego opens up for the first time, surprising her son with secrets and stories of her unique life, battling fascism, a misogynistic art world and manic depression. Paula rego paints a world of dark fairy tale where childhood stories are thin guises for psychosexual intrigue and taboo, where magical realism rules, where nothing is certain except the witchy powers of feminism, and. Dame paula rego is wearing a red cardigan and a necklace of brightly coloured mice. Paula rego shares her secrets with her son the artist discusses love, depression, abortion and infidelity in a new documentary directed by her son chantal joffe on painting, pastel and parenthood. Paula rego is so contemporary with her cruel stories. A documentary about paula s life called secret and stories will.
Full financial estimates for this film, including domestic and international box office, video sales, video rentals, tv and ancillary revenue are. For the french public, rego herself is something of a secret. Just send us a private message with your full name and film title. She became aware of the power of the unspoken as keeping secrets was vital to. Join celebrated film director and son of victor willing and paula rego, nick willing, and writer, art critic and close friend of victor willing, john mcewen, for an in conversation event discussing the visions exhibition and accompanying publication. As a new exhibition of her work opens in paris, kelly grovier looks at how the portuguese artist balances myth and mortality. Paula rego paints a world of nightmares and secrets.
The way she deals with oppression, liberty, love, kindness, submission, art, painting. The bbc is not responsible for the content of external sites. A unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter paula rego directed by her son, filmmaker nick willing. A unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter paula rego directed by her son, film maker nick willing. Secrets and stories wednesday, april 29th at 9pm on tvo and tvo. This intimate film, by her son nick willing, with contributions from his sisters and plentiful cinefilm. Sitting in her studio surrounded by a strange population of lifesize dollies, discombobulated animals, disembodied faces and racks of costumes, she greets her son, filmmaker nick willing. A unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter paula rego directed by her son, the filmmaker. Secrets and stories 2017 including budget, domestic and international box office gross, dvd and bluray sales reports, total earnings and profitability. It shows some of her depression pictures and she unveils the difficult relationship she had.
This a point that rego makes herself in paula rego. Notoriously private and guarded, rego opens up for the first time surprising her son with secrets and stories of her unique life, battling fascism, a misogynistic art world and depression. Paula regos revealing new documentary and show artnet news. Single 280918 rainwater is the new single from londonbased composer, producer and dj, madison willing.
Paula rego reinvents fairy tales with eerie scenes. Paula rego shares her secrets with her son apollo magazine. Secret life of paula rego on show at marlborough and on. On the 2020 oscars red carpet, regina king addresses the question of whether a second season of watchmen might be made, then offers some updates on her. Notoriously private, rego opens up for the first time, surprising her son. Notoriously private and guarded, rego opens up for the first time, surprising her son with secrets and stories of her unique life, battling fascism, a. Willings film is enlivened by plentiful footage of regos early years from paulas father, an anglophile portuguese factory owner, and enthusiastic amateur movie. Paula rego grew up in portugal under the shadow of dictatorship. Visceral and unsettling, paula regos art has challenged us for decades. Secrets and stories wednesday, april 29th at 9pm on tvo and this film offers.
A unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter paula rego directed by her. Secrets and stories, an illuminating and candid 2017 documentary by her film. Who is paula rego, what are her most famous paintings, who. She became aware of the power of the unspoken as keeping secrets was vital to survival. Rego s art has a transformative impact precisely because of its beauty. At the start of the bbcs new documentary about paula rego b. A unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter paula rego directed by her son, the film maker nick willing. Willing is the son of portuguese painter paula rego and english artist victor willing and was largely brought up in portugal, but settled in england at the age of 12. Now, at 83, she talks about cruel fables and the medicinal joy of champagne. This film offers unique insight into the life and work of celebrated painter paula rego directed by her son nick willing. I have recently watched a documentary film paula rego secrets and stories on the well known portuguese born artist prior to having as if by accident come across a temporary exhibition named the fantastic world of paula rego in a shopping mall in lisbon.
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