Degas and Pissario Fall Out

Name: Degas and Pissario Fall Out
Director: Paul Morrison
Released: 1994-03-01
Duration: 28 min
Rating: 8
Cast: Michael Pennington, Henry Goodman, Alison Steadman, Louise Jameson, Peter Wingfield

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Degas and Pissario Fall Out

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Status

Released

Production

APT Film and Television

Aired

1994-03-01

Degas and Pissario Fall Out

A forgotten gem made for the British arts anthology series Without Walls, this half-hour drama imagines the two 19th century impressionist painters on a modern-day talk show–-exploring their friendship and historic conflict over the Dreyfus Affair. Resembling Patrick Watson’s Witness to History in its dramatization of the past, filmmaker Paul Morrison goes one step further by creating a behind-the-scenes world around the show; and in doing so, he offers up a clever satire, as timely as ever, on the medium’s exploitation of two men who are united through art, but divided over politics. For this short piece, Morrison assembled a wonderful cast, featuring Henry Goodman (this year’s Love Gets a Room), Michael Pennington, Louise Jameson (Doctor Who) and Alison Steadman (Life is Sweet).