{"id":6558,"date":"2026-05-28T06:11:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=6558"},"modified":"2026-05-28T06:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:11:58","slug":"a-leonora-carrington-biopic-traces-the-surrealist-icons-life-and-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/?p=6558","title":{"rendered":"A Leonora Carrington Biopic Traces the Surrealist Icon\u2019s Life and Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cDon\u2019t you think it\u2019s dangerous to blur the distinction between abstraction and reality?\u201d asks actress Olivia Vinall in her role as the Surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington<\/a>\u00a0(1917-2011). The heady line is one of the standout statements in the new biopic documenting Carrington\u2019s life and work.<\/p>\n

Directed by Thor Klein and Lena Vurma and produced by Modern Films<\/a>, Leonora in the Morning Light<\/a><\/em> opens in 1930s Paris, when the artist was enmeshed in an avant-garde community that included luminaries like Salvador Dal\u00ed and Andr\u00e9 Breton, along with her partner Max Ernst. When World War II begins, Carrington flees to Spain before eventually re-settling in Mexico, perhaps the location most associated with her work.<\/p>\n

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The film is based on the biographical novel by Elena Poniatowska and comes at a time when Carrington\u2019s oeuvre is in the spotlight, particularly the fantastical work<\/a> made while she was confined to a psychiatric hospital in Spain which had been lost for 80 years.<\/p>\n

Modern Films is also behind the documentary<\/a> about pioneering artist Hilma af Klint, along with Boom For Real<\/a>,<\/em> which chronicles Jean-Michel Basquiat\u2019s teenage years. Leonora in the Morning Light<\/em> is slated for release on May 29 in the U.K. and Ireland.<\/p>\n

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Do stories and artists like this matter to you? Become a Colossal Member<\/a> today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $7 per month. The article A Leonora Carrington Biopic Traces the Surrealist Icon\u2019s Life and Work<\/a> appeared first on Colossal<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDon\u2019t you think it\u2019s dangerous to blur the distinction between abstraction and reality?\u201d asks actress Olivia Vinall in her role as the Surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington\u00a0(1917-2011). The heady…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rss"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catbradley.io\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}