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Australië
Animatie / Documentaire
105 minuten

geregisseerd door Paul Cox
met de stemmen van John Hurt, Marika Rivera en Gabriella Trsek

Animatiefilm over het leven van Vincent van Gogh. Van Gogh was het archetypische gekwelde artistieke genie. Zijn obsessie met schilderen en zijn mentale ziekte zorgde voor een voor hem ongelukkig leven. De enige constante factor in zijn leven is zijn broer Theo, die hem constant steunt.

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VINCENT (1987)

AKAs:
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh


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User Rating: 7.3/10   160 votes



Studio: New Video Group

DVD Release Date: August 30, 2005


Director: Paul Cox


Description
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The best film about Vincent Van Gogh is not one of the many biopics of the painter, but this stirring, ardent documentary. Forgoing a conventional biography"s and-then-he-cut-his-ear-off approach, the gifted Dutch-Australian director Paul Cox opts for pure evocation: he trails his camera through the places where Van Gogh walked, as though trying to dream his way into the artist"s mindset. Meanwhile, the beautiful voice of John Hurt reads from Vincent"s amazingly searching letters to his brother, Theo. (Hurt"s voice probably deserved an Oscar for this vocal-cord performance alone.) Van Gogh"s journey as struggling artist and tormented man of soul is thus made strangely direct--it will not only send you to see Vincent"s paintings but to locate a copy of his collected letters as well. Many film directors have grappled with this subject: Vincente Minnelli with Lust for Life, Robert Altman with Vincent & Theo, Maurice Pialat with Van Gogh. But the perpetually underappreciated Cox has trumped them with simplicity and sheer intensity of feeling. 


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 7.07 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 95 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 | Non-Anamorphic

Sound (main feature): English DD2.0

Subtitles: none



DISC FEATURES:

# "A Journey with Paul Cox".
# Filmmaker Biography.
# Vincent Van Gogh Biography.



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