A biographical drama about the final years of Vincent Van Gogh's life.
Vibrant and intoxicating, At Eternity’s Gate is a terrific study of both an artist at work and the fragile nature of genius. And Willem Dafoe gives one of the performances of his career, inhabiting and illuminating a complex, crumbling soul.
This superb Vincent van Gogh biopic starring Willem Dafoe may be the definitive film about the artist.
Clumsy and tiresome, playing into outdated ideas about mental health.
It doesn’t all work, but rather this sort of film than the dreary paint-by-numbers ones we usually get.
Abstract, meandering and somewhat inaccessible, ‘At Eternity’s Gate’ is as frustrating as it is profound.
The visual vibrancy of Julian Schnabel’s rendering of the painter’s last years isn’t matched by his handling of the story.
Difficult but rewarding study of the final years of Vincent van Gogh.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
macrobert, Stirling from Friday April 12, 2019, until Thursday April 18, 2019. More info: www.macrobert.org
Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee from Friday April 19, 2019, until Thursday April 25, 2019. More info: www.dca.org.uk
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