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The film brings the paintings of Vincent van Gogh to life to tell his remarkable story. Every one of the 65,000 frames of the film is an oil-painting hand-painted by 125 professional oil-painters who travelled from all across the world to the Loving Vincent studios in Poland and Greece to be a part of the production. As remarkable as Vincent’s brilliant paintings are his passionate and ill-fated life and mysterious death.
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John Sessions, Chris O'Dowd, Saoirse Ronan, Helen McCrory, James Greene, Eleanor Tomlinson, Douglas Booth, Bill Thomas, Aidan Turner, Martin Herdman, Holly Earl, Robert Gulaczyk, Jerome Flynn, Cezary Łukaszewicz, Josh Burdett, Robin Hodges, Carole Le Clanche, Graham Pavey, Shaun Newnham, Joe Stuckey, Piotr Pamula, Bozena Berlinska-Bryzek, Anastazja Seweryn, Borys Dominiuk, Bartlomiej Sroka, Kamila Dyoubari, Przemyslaw Furdak, Adam Pabudzinski, Keith Heppenstall, Nina Supranionek, Marcin Sosinski
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Reviews
80
Loving Vincent may exist as a showcase for its technique, but it’s the sensitivity the film shows toward its subject that ultimately distinguishes this particular oeuvre from the countless bad copies that already litter the world’s flea markets.
80
Village Voice
An engrossing exploration of the artist’s final days rendered in his signature painting style.
70
The painstaking work done by Kobiela and Welchman to turn some of the artist’s most prized canvases into animated scenes can be impressive to behold.
70
Beyond explanation is the art itself. 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.
67
There’s something ineffably beautiful about such a purehearted folly, even if a Herzogian drama about the making of Loving Vincent might have more to offer than the film does itself.
