At Eternity's Gate (2018)
Genre: Biography / Drama
Duration: 111 minuten
Country:
Ireland / Switzerland / United Kingdom / France / United States
Directed by: Julian Schnabel
Stars: Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend and Mads Mikkelsen
IMDb score:
6,9 (45.243)
Releasedate: 15 November 2018
At Eternity's Gate plot
"A Grain of Madness is the Best of Art"
The film focuses on the period in which Van Gogh lived in the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise during the last months of his life. He painted a number of works there and developed his colorful way of painting. The focus is on his relationship with his paintings and his struggle with faith, with his psychological disorder and with his disruptive friendship with the artist Paul Gauguin.
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Actors and actresses
Vincent van Gogh
Theo van Gogh
Paul Gauguin
The Priest
Dr. Paul Gachet
Madame Ginoux
Madman
Teacher
Johanna van Gogh-Bonger
The Director
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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- 12860 messages
- 10708 votes
Another film about Vincent van Gogh's last years? Indeed, but this is the first time the filmmakers actually attempt (and fly with flying colors) to get inside the confused head of the artist who is as genius as he is whimsical. It is incomprehensible that director Julian Schnabel, cinematographer Benoit Delhomme and last but not least composer Tatiana Lisovkaia have been overlooked by The Academy. They all deliver a fabulous tour-de-force in a film that pulls out all the stops of cinema and treats us to a visual treat. All this would easily distract from the main character, but Willem Dafoe is nothing short of phenomenal and portrays Van Gogh as the sensitive, constantly doubting, compulsive painter whose love for nature taught us to look at that world differently. The film is more like Rembrandt Fecit 1669 (1977) than Lust for Life (1956), but please let that be a recommendation!
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Zeriel
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- 1406 messages
- 2755 votes
High-sounding title, actor who has passed away (about the same age as when Pa van Gogh died in 1885!), and Vincent & co. speak neither Dutch nor French; ok a few sentences then, but English. Superlatives on the poster: "Tour de Force" nothing less than an "impressionistic masterwork"
Then it must be very good to close the gap between them. Especially because it is a story that is quite well known.
The movie starts very badly. Vincent/Dafoe goes up to a shepherdess with a shoulder camera....and then gives the camera to someone else who hangs on Dafoe by an invisible string the whole time. I found it quite tiring to watch. Especially if the cameraman/woman is also going to run with it. So ugly.
It led me to walk after the movie and see what kind of image you actually have when you just walk and watch. And ladies and gentlemen, that's nothing like shoulder camera footage. The image is even remarkably stable. We have a very good built-in image stabilizer apparently.
Dafoe plays really well, only the flashy camera work is very distracting, and besides, the close-up all the time emphasizes how old Dafoe really is.
We are left with a pretentious, almost compulsively artistic portrait of one of the greatest artists to have walked this Earth, with a fine actor, too old or not, and good moments, but as a whole it adds little.
Great artist, oh then it must also be artfully done, Schnabel must have thought. Sadly failed in that regard.
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Cinsault
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- 243 messages
- 516 votes
A film about Vincent van Gogh, through the eyes of the great painter. At Eternity's Gate is emphatically not a biopic about Van Gogh, not an account of fact that is revealed. The film therefore assumes some foreknowledge and the director does not necessarily stick to the facts. Julian Schnabel (himself a painter) gets inside Van Gogh's head and makes him say things, for example, that he wished he would have said. This perspective produces a somewhat psychedelic effect (also due to the camera work). We see Van Gogh strolling through the countryside around the French village of Auvers-sur-Oise, from which he draws his inimitable inspiration for his painting, which is hardly understood and appreciated by people. Periods in which he is doing relatively well alternate with (especially winter) periods in which he is not doing well. We see him becoming increasingly estranged from his surroundings, who consider Van Gogh a strange, deviant guy and try to keep him out of the environment. Here and there beautiful dialogues and scenes, for example between Van Gogh and friend Paul Gauguin, but also between Van Gogh and his brother Theo. Willem Dafoe delivers a special performance as the sensitive, misunderstood and lonely Van Gogh, but the film as a whole never really impresses or strikes a chord.
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