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Willem Dafoe is Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh in this biographical drama from the director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
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At Eternity's Gate
Willem Dafoe is Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh in this biographical drama from the director of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Follows the artist's time in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. Co-stars Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen and Diving Bell lead Mathieu Amalric.
2018Rating: PG, Mild themes and coarse language111 minsUK, France, USA, Ireland, SwitzerlandFrench and English with English subtitles
DramaTrue Story & BiographyHistorical
- Director:
- Julian Schnabel ('The Diving Bell and the Butterfly', 'Before Night Falls', 'Basquiat')
- Writer:
- Julian SchnabelJean-Claude Carrière
- Cast:
- Willem DafoeRupert FriendOscar IsaacMads MikkelsenMathieu AmalricEmmanuelle SeignerNiels ArestrupAnne Consigny
At Eternity's Gate / Reviews
Variety
The film's vision of van Gogh is honest and incisive and, at the same time, unabashedly romantic. You might call it a portrait of the artist as the world's first flower child.
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An incomplete exercise that lacks crucial emotional brushstrokes despite a rich palette and a piano-heavy score, At Eternity's Gate still offers the thrill of being inside an artistic process, adoringly interpreted.
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The New York Times
This man, much like the real one, is acutely aware of his fragilities. Yet by adamantly focusing above all else on van Gogh's work - and its transporting ecstasies - Schnabel has made not just an exquisite film but an argument for art.
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The Guardian
A strong, valuable and intelligent performance from Dafoe, capably captured by Schnabel.
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Stuff
At Eternity's Gate, in its best moments, is an intoxicating experience. For the very few moments Schnabel over-reaches, there are a dozen others where he will drop your jaw in wonder. I loved this film.
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Hollywood Reporter
An unbridled portrait of the painful but productive final years in the life of Vincent van Gogh, a role inhabited with the acrid lucidity of madness by Willem Dafoe.
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