Lionel Dobie is an acclaimed abstract artist who finds himself unable to paint during the days before a scheduled gallery exhibition of his new work. Paulette is Lionel's assistant and former lover. Lionel is still infatuated with her, but Paulette wants only his tutelage, which makes things difficult since they live in the same studio-loft.

Sep 30, 2018 · Lionel Dobie (played by Nick Nolte) is a world renowned painter, but is only able to perform at his best when he is in the company of a muse. Unfortunately, each woman he takes in is objectified and used, and once his work is completed they are cast aside.

Lionel Dobie: You don't know how deep I go, or how down I get! I was married four times before you were born!

Nov 11, 2015 · Martin Scorsese’s Life Lessons explores the story of Lionel Dobie, a successful painter who has two weeks to finish his upcoming show. The problem is that his painting is fueled by his desire for his muse, the current incantation being his assistant, Paulette, who has been away with another man and now wants to end things with Dobie.

In a story loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short novel The Gambler, Nick Nolte plays Lionel Dobie, an acclaimed abstract artist who finds himself unable to paint during the days before the scheduled beginning of a major gallery exhibition of his new work.

Lionel Dobie : I'm your ally against horse dung and fraud. That's as far as it goes from now on.

Life Lessons (2013) is an adapted American drama film, that follows Lionel Dobie, an acclaimed artist, who finds himself unable to paint before a major gallery exhibition and needs the confused and messy lifestyle of his relationships in order to create his artwork. — TownSpot.TV.

This is a man named Lionel Dobie (Nick Nolte), a large, shaggy painter who works in a loft, weaving back and forth in front of his canvas like a boxer, painting to very loud rock ‘n’ roll. He uses a garbage can lid as a palate, and there is a voluptuous scene in which the camera follows his brush back and forth from paint to canvas.

Apr 5, 1989 · ''Life Lessons'' offers the lonely-at-the-top image of Lionel Dobie, a middle-aged painter played by Nick Nolte. The movie has him working under a tight exhibition deadline and trying to keep...