In 1965, American art critic James Lord published a small book called A Giacometti Portrait. It was an account of his agreeing to sit for a portrait by Alberto Giacometti, a portrait the artist assured him would take only a couple of hours to complete. In fact, the work took weeks and weeks and was never really finished.
In 2018, actor/director Stanley Tucci made an intimate and exquisite film of Lord's book.
He cast Geoffrey Rush as Giacometti (the actor looks astonishingly like the artist) and Armie Hammer as James Lord.
In the course of one of their many walks--this time through a Paris cemetery--Giacometti, gazing at the trees overhead, asks Lord an important question:
Giacometti: Have you ever wanted to be a tree?
Lord: No.
