Van Gogh: Painted with Words

Name: Van Gogh: Painted with Words
Director: Andrew Hutton
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2010
Duration: 1 h 20 min
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Jamie Parker, Aidan McArdle, Christopher Good, Rowena Cooper

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Documentary

2010
Andrew Hutton
80 mins

Summary

The story of Vincent Van Gogh, with dialogue sourced from his own words.

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Review

Jack Seale

First shown on BBC One in 2010, Van Gogh: Painted with Words captures Benedict Cumberbatch just as his star was beginning to rapidly rise. Months later he would hit the big time in Sherlock and there’s some of that role’s fearsome but troubled intelligence here, in a one-off docudrama based on Vincent Van Gogh’s letters, written over an 18-year period to his brother Theo. But this is also a portrait of a deeply uncertain, vulnerable man, dogged by poor mental health and constantly wrestling with how to turn his own acute sensitivity into something beautiful, rather than just another source of private anguish.

With Cumberbatch handling the rage and the desperation skilfully, it’s a revealing bio of Van Gogh personally and an insightful examination of art’s effect on its creators more generally.

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7.8/10

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Cast

rolenameVincent Van GoghBenedict CumberbatchTheo Van GoghJamie ParkerPaul GauguinAidan McArdleTheodorus Van GoghChristopher GoodAnna Van GoghRowena CooperAnthon Van RappardDaniel WeymanAlbert AurierFerdinand KingsleyBernard SouleDavid BaronMarguerite CrevlinStephanie JacobJeanne CoulombKatherine Kanter

Crew

rolenameDirectorAndrew HuttonWriterAndrew HuttonWriterAlan YentobWriterTheo van GoghWriterVincent van GoghProducerAlan YentobDirector of photographyGraham SmithEditorAdam RechtCastingJoyce NettlesProduction designerAndy Harris

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Released on

2010-04-05

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English

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