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Loving Vincent
Dorota Kobiela
(2016)
90min
12A Certificate
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Review
Our Score
by
David Parkinson
Seven years in the making and composed of some 65,000 frames produced by 120-odd artists, Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman's portrait of Vincent Van Gogh is billed as "the world's first fully painted feature film". As labours of love go, it's peerless and the way the co-directors slip some 130 Van Gogh canvases into the action often feels inspired. But, as biography, this audacious project is somewhat unreliable, as frequent sitter Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth) explores the theory that Van Gogh's death was murder not suicide. The shifts between ravishing everyday colour and the monochrome
Citizen Kane
-like flashbacks are neatly handled, as Roulin questions the painter's acquaintances in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise. But purists will be troubled by the pseudo-rotoscopic technique that seems so completely at odds with Van Gogh's distinctive brand of Post-Impressionism and even those prepared to grant the film-makers a degree of artistic licence will find the novel charm of the oil-painted pastiches beginning to pall, as the psychological rawness of Van Gogh's disconcerting style assaults the senses.
Cast & Crew
Armand Roulin
Douglas Booth
Margaret Gachet
Saoirse Ronan
Adeline Ravoux
Eleanor Tomlinson
Dr Gachet
Jerome Flynn
Postman Roulin
Chris O'Dowd
The boatman
Aidan Turner
Louise Chevalier
Helen McCrory
Pere Tanguy
John Sessions
Vincent Van Gogh
Robert Gulaczyk
Ravoux regular
Richard Banks
Landlord
Shaun Newnham
Director
Dorota Kobiela
Director
Hugh Welchman
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Other Information
Language:
English
Colour
Theatrical distributor:
Altitude
Available on:
DVD and Blu-ray
Released on:
9 Oct 2017
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