The Picasso Summer

I'll never understand Albert Finney's apparent popularity. His average looking face is usually frozen in a slight smirk, and he's only slightly more animated during one scene when he comes back drunk to their hotel room.

Yvette is both beautiful and authentic, although why she would be married to fussy Finney is a question not explored.

The big problem is this movie has too many moving parts: travelogue? Ode to Picasso? Or the story of a conflicted marriage? The cartoon sequences seem garish, almost frightening.

Just like in A Light in the Piazza, Yvette is a lovely focal point as she wanders ( alone ) the streets of southern France, and those are my favorite scenes.