Loving Vincent (2017)

Directed by

Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman

Genre

drama film, biographical film, historical film

Country

United Kingdom, Poland, United States

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 2,618 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film follows a man who investigates the final days of painter Vincent van Gogh. He talks to people who knew van Gogh and pieces together what happened before his death.

visually lushmelancholicdreamlikeslow-burncerebralintimatehauntingcontemplativepoignant

What happens

Loving Vincent is a 2017 experimental adult animated historical drama film directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, and written by Kobiela, Welchman, and Jacek Dehnel. It is based on the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, in particular the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animated feature film. The film is a co-production between Poland and the United Kingdom, funded by the Polish Film Institute, and partially through a Kickstarter campaign. The film stars Robert Gulaczyk, Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Saoirse Ronan, Helen McCrory, Chris O'Dowd, John Sessions, Eleanor Tomlinson, and Aidan Turner. First conceived as a seven-minute short film in 2008, Loving Vincent was realized by Kobiela, a painter herself, after studying the techniques and the artist's story through his letters. With an additional use of rotoscoping animation, each of the film's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, created using the same techniques as Van Gogh by a team of 125 artists drawn from around the globe. The film premiered at the 2017 Annecy International Animated Film Festival. The film received critical acclaim and won Best Animated Feature Film Award at the 30th European Film Awards in Berlin and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 90th Academy Awards. The film marked Helen McCrory's final film role before her death in April 2021. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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