Io, Claude Monet: Docu-Film Reveals the Painter's Inner Life Through His Letters

A new documentary film, "Io, Claude Monet," directed by Phil Grabsky, offers an intimate portrait of the French painter Claude Monet (1840–1926) by drawing on his extensive correspondence—over three thousand letters. The film explores Monet's tumultuous inner life, alternating between intense depression and creative euphoria. It features more than one hundred paintings filmed in high definition, providing insight into the emotional and creative world of the artist whose work "Impression, Sunrise" (Impression, soleil levant), exhibited in April 1874 at the studio of photographer Nadar, prompted critic Louis Leroy to coin the term "Impressionists," inadvertently giving rise to a movement that would define much of late 19th-century European art. The docu-film will be screened exclusively on February 14 and 15 as part of the Grande Arte al Cinema season organized by Nexo Digital.