Overview
- Depp stepped behind the camera for the first time since 1997 to direct Modi: Three Days on the Wing of Madness, which debuted at London’s Curzon Mayfair on July 8
- The film dramatizes a turbulent 72-hour period in the life of Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani in war-torn 1916 Paris
- Riccardo Scamarcio leads an ensemble cast that includes Al Pacino as collector Maurice Gangnat, with Stephen Graham and Antonia Desplat in supporting roles
- Early reviews have been predominantly negative, with a 29/100 Metacritic rating and Collider calling the film a “plodding, pretentious mess”
- Modi opens in UK cinemas on July 11 and has yet to announce a release date for the United States