Brush with Fame

Final Portrait is easily Stanley Tucci's best directorial effort since 1996, hinting that he might yet have another big one in him.Writer-Director Stanley Tucci asks the question "When is a piece of art truly done?" with Final Portrait, an acting workshop for Geoffrey Rush and Armie Hammer. The film is based upon the memoir A Giacometti Portrait by James Lord, an American author who sat for a portrait by famed artist Alberto Giacometti in the '60s, shortly before the artist died in 1966.…