Basic Info
Title:
Loving Vincent
Genre:
Animation, Biography
Country:
Poland, United Kingdom
Language:
English
Running
time: 95 minutes
Release
date: 12 June 2017 (Annecy), 22 September 2017
(United States), 6 October 2017 (Poland), 13 October 2017 (United Kingdom)
Staff
Director:
Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Produced by: Hugh Welchman, Ivan Mactaggart, Sean
M. Bobbitt
Screenplay: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Jacek
Dehnel
Music: Clint Mansell
Cinematography:
Tristan Oliver, Łukasz Żal
Edited
by: Dorota Kobiela, Justyna Wierszynska
Cast
Robert Gulaczyk as Vincent van Gogh
Douglas Booth as Armand Roulin
Jerome Flynn as Paul Gachet
Saoirse Ronan as Marguerite Gachet
Helen McCrory as Louise Chevalier
Chris O'Dowd as Postman Joseph
Roulin
John Sessions as Père Tanguy
Eleanor Tomlinson as Adeline Ravoux
Summary
"Loving Vincent" is a 2017 experimental animated biographical drama film about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, and, particularly, about the circumstances surrounding his death.
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| Self-Portrait, Vincent van Gogh (1889) |
It is also the first fully painted animated feature
film. Written and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, the film was
co-produced by Poland and UK, with funding by the Polish Film Institute and
partly through a Kickstarter campaign.
First conceived as a seven-minute
short film in 2008, the film came to be realized by Dorota Kobiela, a painter
herself, after studying the techniques and the story of Van Gogh through his
letters.
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| Dorota Kobiela |
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 from around the world. The film premiered at the 2017 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.
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| Annecy International Animation Film Festival |
It also won the Best Animated Feature Film Award at the 30th European Film Awards in Berlin, and was nominated for Best Animated Feature Film at the 90th Academy Awards.
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| The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh (1889) |
Movie
Review
“Van Gogh's art comes
alive”
“Amazing work of art,
telling a melancholic tale”
“Beautiful”
“A work of art, a
masterpiece”
“A Visual Feast!”
“Real Cinematic Art”
“One of the most visually-striking
films ever made”
“Absolutely mesmerizing”
“Story of an unfortunate
man”
“Visualized Sentiment”
“A Masterpiece Of Moving
Art”
Interesting
stories about the film
1. It took a team of over 100 professional artists to hand-paint every frame of this film.
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| The Night Café, Vincent van Gogh (1888) |
2. This film was animated with rotoscope. After shooting in live action with real actors and actresses, each frame was painted and animated.
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| Patent drawing for Max Fleischer's original rotoscope |
3. The concept of artistically painted animation was described in Arthur C. Clarke's novel "Childhood's End" in 1953.
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| Cover of first edition, Childhood's End, Arthur C Clarke (1953) |
4. Only the "present day"
sequences are animated in Vincent's painting style, and flashbacks were
animated from black-and-white photographs of the period.
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| Wheatfield with Crows, Vincent van Gogh (1890) |
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