At Eternity's Gate (2018)

Directed by

Julian Schnabel

Genre

drama film, biographical film

Country

France, United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1,582 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This movie follows Vincent van Gogh in the last years of his life. It shows him painting and struggling with his mental health. The story also presents a theory that his death was not a suicide.

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What happens

At Eternity's Gate is a 2018 biographical drama film directed by Julian Schnabel, from a screenplay by Schnabel, Jean-Claude Carrière and Louise Kugelberg. It follows Vincent van Gogh's final years of life, including dramatizing the theory that his death was caused by manslaughter rather than suicide. It stars Willem Dafoe as van Gogh, alongside an ensemble cast that includes Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner and Niels Arestrup. The film had its world premiere in the main competition of the 75th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2018, where Dafoe won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. It was theatrically released in the United States on November 16, 2018, by CBS Films, before streaming on Netflix in France on February 15, 2019. It was released theatrically in the United Kingdom on March 29, 2019, by Curzon Artificial Eye. It received generally positive reviews from critics; Dafoe's acting was widely acclaimed, and for his performance he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, among others. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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