Loving Vincent

Year:	2017
Country:	Europe
Language:	English
Genre:	Animation, Biography, Crime
IMDB:	IMDB Page
Rating:	7.0 Rate
Collection:	Seen It Wishlist
Community:	1 Has Seen, 2 Wishlist


Director	Dorota Kobiela
	Hugh Welchman
Selected Cast	Douglas Booth as Armand Roulin
	Josh Burdett as The Zouave
	Holly Earl as La Mousme

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Loving Vincent - NonStop Entertainment - Sweden (2017)

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Magic Marmalade 26th Jan 2022		Rated 7/10 One of those: "You've got to see it at least once in your life" kind of films. Of course, the big thing about this movie, is the big gimmick employed of making an entire movie from Vincent Van Gogh paintings, making them move and tell a story, which is the story of Vincent himself... ...And as such, the many thousands of hand painted frames (actual paintings!) that go to make up this work stand as an astonishing technical, and artistic achievement. That said, this gimmick does threaten to overwhelm the movie, as it is quite a jarring experience which takes some getting used to after the initial: "Wow!" of the concept has passed... ...It looks, and feels, not unlike an LSD trip (so I'm told - ahem), which very much presses in on the brain somewhat. Fortunately, even if you take this big gimmick / artistic concept out of the equation, there's still a great story, well told underneath, and the movie could stand on this alone. The premise is that a postmaster's son, returning a letter to the family of Vincent Van Gogh in the town where he spent his final days begins to unpick the story of those final days through conversations, or even interviews with those that knew him, and so unravel the mystery of the man, both in how and why he died, and who he was as a person: ...Did he kill himself? .............Was he Killed? ....................Was he mad or simply misunderstood? Ultimately, this is an "impressionist" portrait of Vincent Van Gogh in one crucial period of his life: The end... as told through the collective testimony of others, and I think it does the man justice, for all his faults and foibles, there's a love, warmth and sympathy for him that helps look at those well established ideas we have of his life in a new light. In fact, I did come away form this feeling that perhaps I'd like to see a straight up, live action version of this story, without the gimmick, as it would certainly still be a great movie, but as it is, as a whole, it's a great experience to have at least once. 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?



jaimeeduardo 1st Nov 2020

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