Picassos äventyr (The Adventures of Picasso): Film screening in collaboration with the Kiruna Film Club

Picassos äventyr (The Adventures of Picasso) is a Swedish surrealist comedy directed by Tage Danielsson from 1978. Th e film stars Gösta Ekman, Hans Alfredson, Birgitta Andersson, and Lena Nyman.

“Picasso is tired in the head, heads to the Riviera”—Elsa Beskow narrates, Dalí’s fingers are five meters long, Ernest Hemingway knits, the art police dog Jacky sniffs out marine motifs, Hasse and Tage lie constantly, and no one speaks Swedish except Elsa in Tage Danielsson’s extraordinary film.

Image 1: The Adventures of Picasso
Image 2: A Hole in the Real: Dora García, Pablo Picasso, and the Legacy of Mining
Image 3-4: Stills from The adventures of Picasso.