Defiant, brilliant, and untamable, Leonora Carrington refused to live by anyone’s rules but her own.

In the charged atmosphere of 1930s Paris, she falls under the spell of the Surrealist movement—and into a passionate, volatile love affair with the German artist Max Ernst. Together, they create a world where art and life blur, surrounded by icons like André Breton and Salvador Dalí, and build an otherworldly refuge in the south of France filled with sculpted creatures and strange, living dreams. But as war engulfs Europe, their fantasy shatters, and Leonora is thrust into a nightmare of loss, madness, and survival.

Leonora in the Morning Light is the epic true story of a woman who turned trauma into transcendence, creating beauty from chaos and forging a legacy that changed the history of modern art.

The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be "discovered" and sold after his death.

Directed by Steven Soderbergh (Black Bag, Oceans Trilogy), starring the legendary Ian Mckellen and award winning Michaela Coel, this black comedy explores the nature of fame, the responsibility of critics, the arrogance of genius and the danger of gatekeeping.

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“McKellen and Coel (...) are a fascinating and perfect mismatch in energy.”

- Vulture

" Simple pleasures like these are why movies were created."

- Roger Ebert