本片用无厘头喜剧的风格演绎了毕加索的故事。 1881年，巴勃罗•路易斯•毕加索（Gösta Ekman 饰）生于西班牙马拉加，他的父亲何塞（Hans Alfredson 饰）热爱绘画，并早早发现了毕加索身上的美术才华。于是年轻的毕加索被送到马德里学习，他优异的画作令父亲兴奋过度上演了一出死而复生的喜剧。1899年，毕加索赴巴黎求学，陷入了长期拮据的生活，直到何塞来到巴黎，施计将立体派作品卖给美国名作家斯坦恩，毕加索以此为契机，进入了当时法国文艺界的视野，他参观了卢梭世外桃源般的花园，与街头的工人打成一片，也被美国的古根海姆夫人长期骚扰，连串光陆怪离的经历后，毕加索卷入了纳粹对欧洲的侵略，战争令他对于人生和艺术产生了新的体会……

A poetic treatment which includes the artist painting on glass while facing the camera, shot at Picasso's home in Vallauris, accompanied by some fairly moody organ music in this very dark, but captivating film. The artist here takes on the character of an eminence-grise, an alchemist engulfed in the "sol y sombra" of his laboratory-studio, filmed in gorgeous black and white.

Double agent Picasso Trigger is assassinated in Paris by double-crossing bad guy Miguel Ortiz. Then Ortiz begins eliminating agents of The Agency who were involved in his brother's death. The Agency (belatedly) springs into action to stop Ortiz' heinous activities. The usual gunplay, romance, and nifty toys with bombs ensue.

尽管毕加索已经是家喻户晓的名字，但很多人都不知道他的作画的动力﹑有甚么困扰过他，以及他是如何「经历动荡」下，成就自己的伟大艺术。

“引人入胜的细节与优雅，充满魅力与技巧。”——《卫报》 毕加索一生用笔下的线条与色彩，描绘出我们都曾经历却无法表达的情感。年轻时的他，更是将画笔交给内心，任由情感在画布上肆意奔涌。在蓝色时期，毕加索忧愁的思绪附着在靛蓝的色调中浮现于画布；而在玫瑰时期，他恋爱的激情则随着鲜明的橘色溢出画框。导演罕见地聚焦毕加索默默无闻的这两个时期，走访马拉加、巴塞罗那、巴黎，通过毕加索年轻时与爱人和挚友的书信，捕捉他的情感轨迹，从忧郁的蓝色时期开始，一同走到重拾激情的玫瑰时期。更从大量珍贵且从未曝光的画作中，细察毕加索画风的转变，与你在伤痛与激情中，见证毕加索从才华横溢的青年，蜕变成为无人不知的抽象大师。

Filming started by Serge Bourguignon circa 1967; shelved after completion (if completed); circa 1971 partly reshot by Robert Sallin. Serge Bourguignon, the auteur of the 1962 Academy Award winner Sundays and Cybele, doesn't quite come up to the standard set by that earlier film in Picasso Summer. Based on a Ray Bradbury story, the film concerns vacationing couple Albert Finney and Yvette Mimieux. Enchanted by the works of Pablo Picasso, Finney and Mimieux trek through the length and breadth of Europe to meet the great artist himself. Their odyssey concludes on a melancholy note, but not before an engaging animated sequences wherein Picasso's paintings come to life, as it were. Filmed in 1969, Picasso Summer was long withheld from release; in fact, most filmgoers didn't get to see it until it began making the TV rounds.

影片讲述了1911年卢浮宫《蒙娜丽莎》失窃前后发生的故事。偷盗者是一名意大利人，他经常把偷来的赃物送到画家毕加索，以及他的好友、著名诗人阿波利奈尔那里销赃。《蒙娜丽莎》失窃后，法国举国震惊，甚至惊动了当时的总统。惊慌之下的阿波利奈尔把赃物交给一家报社，希望报社在不透露他姓名的情况下，将这些雕塑还给卢浮宫。报社在收下赃物之后立刻食言，把这件事作为报纸的头条登了出来，阿波利奈尔自然也被警察逮捕了。他们对外宣布，阿波利奈尔是某个国际文物盗窃集团的骨干，而《蒙娜丽莎》的失窃正是该盗窃集团的杰作。无奈，阿波利奈尔希望毕加索能够为自己作证。 但当警察找到毕加索问讯的时候，毕加索在巨大恐惧的催生下，失去了勇气，背叛了自己的好友……