2013 Documentary
United Kingdom/Canada
1h 25min
Based on the artist's private journals dating from the Italian Renaissance, the film recreates the mindscape and ideas of mankind's greatest polymath. Capaldi narrates passages from the journals, capturing the power of Da Vinci's artistic imagination. Following a biographical narrative, the film traces everything from the artist's thwarted ambitions, anger, and sexual desire to the mundanity of his everyday life as captured in over 6,000 pages of handwritten notes and drawings.
| Directed by | Julian Jones |
| Written by | Nick Dear, Julian Jones |
