PAUL AND ÉMILE

Paul Cézanne and Émile Zola were inseparable as schoolboys in Aix-en-Provence.  Once up in Paris they shivered sharing a bed and eating broiled sparrows, impatient for the world to recognize their genius, one as painter, the other as writer. Then, inexplicably, came a bitter falling out and a mystifying two decades of silence.  But what might happen when they are unexpectedly reunited, in Cézanne’s studio, at the height of their separate life journeys?