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Sunday in the Park with George

1986 · 145 min Music Comedy Drama
7.2 / 10 · TMDB

Georges Seurat is consumed by the creation of his masterpiece, 'A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte'. Each brushstroke is a calculation, a dot in a system, yet behind this pointillist technique lies a man losing his grip on the real world. His lover, Dot, aches from the coldness of a genius who sees her only as a compositional element. A century later, his descendant, artist George, endures a creative crisis in a world where art has become technological and commercial. His search for meaning leads to an unexpected dialogue with the past, where he discovers the key to his own future.

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Year 1986
Country United States of America
Genre Music, Comedy, Drama
Director Terry Hughes
Runtime 145 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.2/10 (24 votes)

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Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine crafted not merely a musical about an artist, but a profound examination of the cost of genius and the eternal rift between art and life. The production becomes a meditation on what we leave behind—a finished masterpiece or the fragments of ruined relationships.

What lingers after the final note is a sense of luminous connection, a realization that the struggle to 'connect' and 'make something of lasting value' is the very pulse of the human and artistic condition. A masterpiece about making a masterpiece. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Terry Hughes

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