Loving Vincent

M
2016
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95 mins
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Hand-painted animated drama about the life and mysterious death of Vincent Van Gogh. The film uses a new oil painting... More

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Loving Vincent is available to stream in Australia now on... More Google Play and Apple TV Store and Ritz at Home and ACMI Cinema 3.

Loving Vincent | Ratings & Reviews

"Critics can no longer describe a film as “a painting come to life!” This musing on Vincent van Gogh owns that metaphor now, and unless we see another feature made from tens of thousands of actual paintings, it’s going to stay that way. Opening with a shot of the crescent from The Starry Night, the moonlight proceeds to move and rotate in the way that painting suggests. Imitating van Gogh’s style isn’t something to marvel at, but to see it interpreted in animation is. This film is a visual astonishment and it would’ve been a damn shame if filmmakers Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman fudged the opportunity."

Flicks, Liam MagurenFlicks

"Brings a poetic sense of tragedy to the last act of van Gogh's life, and fresh insight into the kind of man he was."

VarietyVariety

"Despite dialogue and accent issues, this is a breathtaking homage to van Gogh. There has never been a film like it."

Total FilmTotal Film

"Part mystery, part visual experiment, 'Loving Vincent' is a reverent ode to the 19th century painter Vincent van Gogh."

Time OutTime Out

"As the story limps and drags, the viewer also becomes accustomed to the images, and astonishment at the film's innovative, painstaking technique begins to fade. But its charm never quite wears off, for reasons summed up in the title."

The New York TimesThe New York Times

"Here is an oddity: intriguing and yet weirdly exasperating, like a sentimental tribute, or a one-joke epic, or a monomaniacal act of stylistic pedantry."

The GuardianThe Guardian

"A paean and requiem for a talented artist taken before his time."

StuffStuff

"The beautiful visuals, unfortunately, can't hide a screenplay which feels at times trite and stagey."

New Zealand HeraldNew Zealand Herald

"Perhaps because expressions are so smudged and movements so weightless, the wonders of Loving Vincent don’t really extend past its magical aesthetic. But what wonders they are."

New Zealand ListenerNew Zealand Listener

"Animating Van Gogh's bold impasto, already kinetic on the canvas, could have been merely superfluous. As moving pictures, though, the brushstrokes have an unexpected pull in this uneven but deeply felt homage."

Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles Times

"People interested in what cinema can do should go and see it."

FilmInkFilmInk

"A triumph of painstaking technical prowess and stunning visuals over storytelling and dialogue. See it for its nuanced take on a huge cultural figure and to applaud its astounding audacity."

Empire MagazineEmpire Magazine

Loving Vincent | Details

Rating
M, Mature themes
Runtime
95
Genre
Drama
Country of origin
UK, Poland