"The new film Moss & Freud opens with Kate Moss (Ellie Bamber) hurtling down the motorway, cigarette in hand, blond hair whipped back, redoing her lipstick in the rear-view mirror like a Hitchcockian anti-heroine. When sirens peal behind her and the police pass, Moss cackles. This sequence establishes the film's fixation as being on the model and unlikely, one-time muse of Lucian Freud (here Derek Jacobi), rather than on the artist. Sadly, it has little to say about either subject-or Freud's self-proclaimed search for "truth""
"The film, a feature-length debut for writer-director James Lucas, is set in London in 2001. As per the title, its story centres on the unlikely friendship forged between a reclusive Freud, by then in his late 70s, and a 27-year-old Moss, fatigued by relentless fashion editorials and partying. After the English model mentioned in a Dazed & Confused interview that she would like to sit for Freud, the portraitist-famously reluctant to paint anyone outside his close circle-agreed, culminating in the stark, corporeal and ruthlessly unflattering"
The film opens with Kate Moss speeding down a motorway, cigarette in hand, redoing her lipstick and cackling as police sirens pass. The narrative is set in London in 2001 and centers on an unlikely friendship between a reclusive Lucian Freud in his late 70s and a 27-year-old Moss, exhausted by fashion editorials and partying. Moss's expressed desire to sit for Freud leads to the creation of Naked Portrait 2002. The film repeatedly fixates on Moss as muse rather than on Freud as artist, and it offers a flattening rather than illuminating portrait of their dynamic. Early scenes stage their first meeting amid 17th- and 18th-century paintings.
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