Basic Info
Title:
At Eternity's Gate
Genre:
Biography, Drama
Country:
France, United Kingdom, United States
Language:
English, French
Running
time: 110 minutes
Release
date: September 3, 2018 (Venice International
Film Festival); November 16, 2018 (United States); February 15, 2019 (France); March
29, 2019 (United Kingdom)
Staff
Director:
Julian Schnabel
Produced by: Jon Kilik
Screenplay: Jean-Claude Carrière, Louise
Kugelberg, Julian Schnabel
Music: Tatiana Lisovskaya
Cinematography:
Benoît Delhomme
Edited
by: Louise Kugelberg, Julian Schnabel
Cast
Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh
Rupert Friend as Theo van Gogh
Mads Mikkelsen as The Priest
Mathieu Amalric as Dr. Paul Gachet
Emmanuelle Seigner as Madame Ginoux
Oscar Isaac as Paul Gauguin
Amira Casar as Johanna van
Gogh-Bonger
Summary
“At Eternity's Gate” is a
2018 biographical drama film about the final years of the painter Vincent van
Gogh’s life. The film dramatizes the controversial arguments of Van Gogh's
biographers Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith that Van Gogh's death was not
a suicide but an accident caused by a gunshot by a local gangster.
Directed and co-written by Julian
Schnabel, the film, starring Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh, was filmed for
38 days at various locations in France where Van Gogh lived during his final
years.
The film had its world premiere at
the 75th Venice International Film Festival on September 3, 2018, was
theatrically released in the United States by CBS Films on November 16, 2018,
and started streaming on Netflix in France on February 15, 2019. The film
received generally positive reviews from critics, and Dafoe's acting was widely
acclaimed, who was nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award
for Best Actor.
Movie
Review
“Don't think of At
Eternity's Gate as just a movie”
“A creative and
beautifully artistic film”
“A must see”
“See the World through Van
Gogh's Eyes”
“Beautiful and powerful”
Interesting
stories about the film
1. The main poster image for this film is based on one of Vincent van Gogh's last self-portraits, painted after he sliced off a piece of his ear.
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| Self-portrait with bandaged ear and pipe, Vincent van Gogh (1889) |
2. Willem Dafoe is the second actor to be nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards for playing Vincent Van Gogh, after Kirk Douglas in “Lust for Life (1956).”
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| Poster, Lust for Life (1956) |
3. Willem Dafoe was born William,
but in this film he uses his nickname, Willem. Willem was also Van Gogh's middle
name.
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| Self-Portrait, Vincent van Gogh (1887) |
4. The film was shot over 38 days
on location in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône and Auvers-sur-Oise, France, where Van
Gogh lived during his final years.
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| The Yellow House, Arles, Vincent van Gogh (1888) |
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