Overview
- The film opens in cinemas across the UK from May 29, moving from a limited October release to a broader national rollout.
- Kate Moss is credited as an executive producer and lent archival outfits to the production, a level of involvement director James Lucas says was necessary to make the film.
- Moss did not attend the London premiere at Selfridges; Ellie Bamber led the publicity drive with photocalls and interviews ahead of the wider release.
- Moss & Freud dramatizes Moss’s unusual creative relationship with painter Lucian Freud and the making of his 2002 Naked Portrait, with scenes that portray candid episodes from her past such as drug use, risky nights out and a serious car crash.
- The production leans on archival fashion and period garments to authenticate the story and Bamber’s performance, a choice that will shape how viewers judge the film’s balance of candor and curation; Freud’s original Naked Portrait sold for about £3.9m at auction, underlining the cultural and market interest in the episode the movie depicts.