MOSS & FREUD
United Kingdom, New Zealand, 2025, 110 min
Director: James Lucas
Starring: Ellie Bamber, Derek Jacobi, Tim Downie, and others

 

Sex, scandals and celebrities never go out of fashion.
The tabloids are beside themselves with headlines: “Provocation! Kate Moss to pose nude for Lucian Freud!”, “Late-night sessions with the supermodel!”, “Britain’s sex symbol poses naked for the art world’s most provocative painter!”, “What’s happening behind the doors of his studio – great art or a dirty sensation?”
Public opinion split into two camps. Some placed bets on how many hours it would take before Freud lost his temper and threw the headstrong Moss out of his studio. Others were already calculating how many millions this sensational portrait would one day be worth.
A portrait by an artist whose distorted figures, mercilessly exposing human vulnerability, had shocked even the most discerning connoisseurs of art.
Yet both sides shared one thing — bewilderment.
How had this cantankerous genius, who loathed society gatherings and public attention, agreed to paint a portrait of the world's most scandalous supermodel?
It would be hard to imagine two more different people.
Kate Moss — already exhausted by fame, turbulent relationships, the intrigues of high fashion and a dangerous path of self-destruction.
Lucian Freud — the last great painter, a master of British art, a fierce misanthrope obsessed with the imperfections of the human body.
Two people who ignored society's moral conventions, broke the rules with ease and never stopped to consider the consequences.
And then?
Black cabs cutting through the rain. The golden glow of Soho's private clubs. The rustle of bed sheets. A dimly lit studio. The tension between an artist and a woman accustomed to being an object of desire, but never the object of such relentless artistic scrutiny.
Before our eyes — from charcoal sketches to thick layers of oil paint — one of the most celebrated works of the twenty-first century slowly takes shape: the sensational Naked Portrait. It will mark the beginning of a remarkable friendship...
Meanwhile, between the late-night sittings in the great artist's studio, glamorous London at the dawn of the new millennium was in full swing.
John Galliano's theatrical decadence and Alexander McQueen's Gothic sensuality, private parties, the weary glamour of nights dissolving into cigarette smoke, camera flashes and the whir of Polaroids. A dazzling bohemian world of Vivienne Westwood, Naomi Campbell, young artists, musicians and photographers, all creating a new fashion-gloss aesthetic — bold, fragile, intoxicating and dangerously seductive.

 

Language: English