Director: Johnny Depp
Three days can unravel a man completely, and that's the premise director Johnny Depp builds his 2024 drama around in Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, a portrait of painter Amedeo Modigliani at his most unmoored.
What is Modi Three Days on the Wing of Madness about?
Set in a Paris still scarred by war in 1916, the story tracks a frantic seventy-two-hour stretch in the life of Modigliani, the bohemian painter his friends know simply as Modi. Chased through the streets by police and worn down by a desire to abandon his career and leave the city altogether, he finds no support from fellow artists Maurice Utrillo and Chaim Soutine, nor from his muse Beatrice Hastings, all of whom dismiss his plan to walk away. He turns instead to his art dealer and friend Leopold Zborowski for guidance, but the pressure keeps mounting. A night of vivid hallucinations pushes the chaos in his mind toward a breaking point, arriving just as an American collector, Maurice Gangnat, appears with an offer that could change the trajectory of his entire life.
Cast & crew
Riccardo Scamarcio takes on the title role of Modigliani, supported by Antonia Desplat as Beatrice Hastings and Al Pacino as the American collector Maurice Gangnat. Stephen Graham, Benjamin Lavernhe, Bruno Gouery, Ryan McParland, and Sally Phillips round out the ensemble surrounding the artist's circle of friends, rivals, and patrons.
Context & significance
Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness is a 2024 drama marking Johnny Depp's work behind the camera, set against the backdrop of Paris during the final years of the First World War. Filmed as an international co-production spanning Italy, the United Kingdom, and Hungary, the story compresses its subject's turmoil into a tight one-hundred-ten-minute runtime, favoring a feverish, hallucinatory approach over a conventional biographical structure.
Where & how to watch
Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness is available to stream on K-Time with a free account login; the page itself can be browsed without signing in. This title does not currently carry a Persian dub or Persian subtitles, so it plays in its original language, and it joins K-Time's broader catalog of international drama aimed at Persian-speaking viewers seeking arthouse and historical films.