Film
Loving Vincent
- Director
- Hugh Welchman, Dorota Kobiela
- Certificate
- 15
- Running Time
- 91 mins
A fresh new take on lughole-incapacitated artist Vincent Van Gogh, this is billed as the first fully painted animated feature. What that means is that each of the film’s 65,000 frames comprises an oil painting on canvas in the style of the great post-impressionist, laboriously created by a team of 115 daubers over seven years. Each worked from images of actors (Saoirse Ronan, Douglas Booth, Aidan Turner, etc) in full period garb, bringing to life some of the painter’s best known works.
The story itself is a multiple-viewpoint murder-mystery potboiler speculating that his apparent suicide may not have been all it seems. Naturally, purists are up in arms. But that’s what purists are for. Co-directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman have certainly pulled off a stunning visual achievement. Note that this is an Ourscreen screening. Go here for tickets.
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