{{Infobox film | image = Picasso's Gang.jpg | caption = Poster | director = Fernando Colomo | screenplay = Fernando Colomo | starring = {{plainlist| * Ignacio Mateos * Pierre Bénézit * Jordi Vilches * Lionel Abelanski * Raphäelle Agogué * Louise Monot }} | music = Juan Bardem | cinematography = Jose Luis Alcaine | editing = Maria Lara<br /> Antonio Lara | studio = Colomo P.C. | released = {{Film date|2012|12|14|df=y}} | country = Spain | language = French<br />Spanish<ref name="V"/><br />English<ref name="V"/> }}
'''''La banda Piccaso''''' is a 2012 Spanish film directed by Fernando Colomo. A thriller film, it centers on Picasso and other real life painters in Paris in the early 1910s,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Art |first=Istanbul Museum of Modern |title=PICASSO’S GANG |url=https://www.istanbulmodern.org/en/film/picasso-s-gang |access-date=2024-12-26 |website=www.istanbulmodern.org |language=en}}</ref><ref name="V">{{Cite news |date=2012-08-18 |title=Picasso’s Life Inspires Two Films (Published 2012)|work=Variety |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/movies/picassos-life-inspires-films-in-spain.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241205092706/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/18/movies/picassos-life-inspires-films-in-spain.html |archive-date=2024-12-05 |access-date=2024-12-26 |language=en |url-status=live }}</ref> the film being a depiction of real events associated with the 1911 robbery of the ''Mona Lisa'' and the fact that the French police suspected the involvement of the Spanish painter.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ciclo de cine. La banda Picasso |url=https://www.centrobotin.org/actividad/ciclo-de-cine-la-banda-picasso/ |access-date=2024-12-26 |website=Centro Botin |language=es-ES |archive-date=2024-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241226131857/https://www.centrobotin.org/actividad/ciclo-de-cine-la-banda-picasso/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Cast ==
* Ignacio Mateos: Pablo Picasso * Pierre Bénézit: Guillaume Apollinaire * Jordi Vilches: Manolo Hugué * Lionel Abelanski: Max Jacob * Raphäelle Agogué: Fernande Olivier * Louise Monot: Marie Laurencin * Alexis Michalik: Géry Pieret (Le Baron) * Stanley Weber: Georges Braque * Thomas Jouannet: Henri-Pierre Roché * Cristina Toma: Gertrude Stein * David Coburn: Leo Stein * Eszter Tompa: Alice B.Toklas
== Reception == A critic from ''Fotogramas'' rated the film three out of five stars.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-11-19 |title=La banda Picasso |url=https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a494489/la-banda-picasso/ |access-date=2024-12-26 |website=Fotogramas |language=es-ES |archive-date=2024-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241225113458/https://www.fotogramas.es/peliculas-criticas/a494489/la-banda-picasso/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A critic from ''Variety'' called the film ”a lively period piece about a footnote in the titular artist's life”.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Holland |first=Jonathan |date=2013-02-05 |title=Picasso’s Gang |url=https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/picasso-s-gang-1117949165/ |access-date=2024-12-26 |website=Variety |language=en-US |archive-date=2024-12-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241225103659/https://variety.com/2013/film/reviews/picasso-s-gang-1117949165/ |url-status=live }}</ref> == Accolades == Nominated at the XXVII edición de los Premios Goya in two categories.
== See also == Two other films about the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa:
* ''The Theft of the Mona Lisa'' * ''The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen''
== References == {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{IMDb title|2102355}}
Category:Films about painters Category:Spanish thriller films Category:2012 films Category:Films set in 1911 Category:Films set in Paris Category:Cultural depictions of Pablo Picasso Category:2012 thriller films Category:2012 Spanish films