"When Lucian Freud met Kate Moss turns out to be the encounter of a sweet, cuddly old gentleman and a guardedly opaque hedonist. Both look defanged. Freud's sensational Naked Portrait 2002 is a nude study of the supermodel, to whom he had been introduced by his daughter, the fashion designer Bella Freud. Moss was pregnant when she sat for him which lent a fierce, additional frisson to the painting's candour and intimacy. Ellie Bamber plays Kate and carries off the unclothed moments with great directness."
"She was 28; he was 80 and his reputation as a Lothario led to all sorts of tabloid gossip about a possible relationship though the film, for which Moss is executive producer, is burdened with the killjoy task of solemnly making it clear that this wasn't true, while also trying to convey a kind of compensatory eroticism elsewhere all sorts of bohemian raciness and an impossibly stylish meeting of super-hip creative minds."
An eighty-year-old Lucian Freud and twenty-eight-year-old Kate Moss meet for a portrait sitting centered on Freud's Naked Portrait (2002). Moss was pregnant during the session, intensifying the painting's candour and intimacy. Ellie Bamber portrays Moss with directness, while Derek Jacobi gives Freud a buzzard-like look and Germanic R sounds but lacks some sharpness. Tabloid gossip about a relationship circulates, and the film, with Moss as executive producer, insists no romantic involvement occurred while trying to convey bohemian eroticism and creative chemistry. Frequent scenes feel muted and domesticated, often reducing Moss to a trustafarian and Freud to a soppy grandfather.
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