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In a magazine interview, Kate Moss reveals that she would love to be painted by artist Lucian Freud. Her good friend Bella Freud facilitates a meeting between Kate and Lucian and the latter agrees to immortalise the supermodel on canvas, only if she agrees to his terms.

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A star rating of 3 out of 5.

James Mottram

Supermodel Kate Moss and painter Lucian Freud take centre stage in this affectionate if sanitised biopic. In 2002, the impossibly glamorous Moss (Ellie Bamber) sits for Freud (Derek Jacobi) for a nude study, resulting in the celebrated painting Naked Portrait. She's 28, living in a whirlwind of clubs, drugs and fashion shoots. He's 80, a legend on the art scene. Somehow, they find common ground at a time when Moss needs a wise father (or grandfather) figure in her life. The radiant Bamber is perfect as Moss, and Jacobi brings a bohemian elegance to Freud, frequently chiding her for poor timekeeping. Writer/director James Lucas keeps things tasteful, swerving any suggestions of age-inappropriate frisson, but the fact that Moss is an executive producer on the film points to a safe approach in its storytelling. True, one scene shows the characters taking opium in Freud's hazy, sun-kissed garden, but compared to Jacobi's outing as the painter's peer Francis Bacon in 1998's Love Is the Devil, this provides only broad brushstrokes.

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Cast

rolenameKate MossEllie BamberLucian FreudDerek JacobiBella FreudJasmine BlackborowDavid DawsonTim DownieJefferson HackWill Tudor

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rolenameDirectorJames Lucas

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Theatrical distributor

Vertigo

Released on

2026-05-29

Languages

English

Guidance

swearing, sex scenes, nudity, drug abuse

Formats

Colour

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