Vincent and Me

Vincent and Me
Vincent and Me
Directed by	Michael Rubbo
Written by	Michael Rubbo
Produced by	Rock Demers; Claude Nedjar
Starring	Nina Petronzio; Christopher Forrest; Paul Klerk; Alexandre Vernon Dobtcheff; Anna-Maria Giannotti; Andrée Pelletier; Jeanne Calment; Matthew Mabe; Tchéky Karyo
Cinematography	Andreas Poulsson
Music by	Pierick Houdy
Release date	13 December 1990 (Canada);
Running time	100 mins
Country	Canada
Language	French

Vincent and Me (French-language title: Vincent et moi) is a 1990 French Canadian fantasy film. The movie was directed by Michael Rubbo and is the 11th in the Tales for All (Contes Pour Tous) series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête.

Jeanne Calment, appeared as herself, aged 114, the oldest person to ever appear in a motion picture, a fact that gained her a placing in Guinness World Records.^[2] Calment claimed to have met Vincent van Gogh ca. 1888 when she was 12 or 13.^[3]

Plot[edit]

Jo, a girl from Quebec, loves to draw, and she is good enough at it to win a scholarship. She goes to the city from her small town to study at a special art school, where more than anything else, she hopes to learn to paint like her hero, Vincent van Gogh. While sketching faces one day, she encounters a mysterious European art dealer who buys a few of her drawings, and commissions her to do some more. He rewards her handsomely for her work, and goes back to Amsterdam. Not long after, Jo is shown a magazine story about the "discovery" and million-dollar sale of some of the drawings of young Vincent van Gogh, drawings only she and her friend Felix know are hers. The only thing to do is for Jo and friends to get to Amsterdam and find the mystery man; or, better still, go right to the source and speak to Vincent himself in 19th-century Arles.

Cast[edit]

Nina Petronzio as Jo
Christopher Forrest as Felix Murphy
Paul Klerk as Joris
Vernon Dobtcheff (billed as Alexandre Vernon Dobtchef) as Dr. Winkler
Anna-Maria Giannotti as Grain
Andrée Pelletier as Mrs. Wallis
Matthew Mabe as Tom Mainfield
Tchéky Karyo as Vincent van Gogh
Jeanne Calment as herself
Kiki Classen
Maria Giannotti
Inge Ipenburg
Michel Maillot
Wally Martin

References[edit]

^ "Vincent et moi". Culture et communications, Quebec. 24 October 1990. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
^ "Oldest Person". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
^ Whitney, Craig R. (5 August 1997). "Jeanne Calment, World's Elder, Dies at 122". New York Times. Retrieved 4 August 2008.

External links[edit]

Vincent et moi at IMDb
Vincent and Me at AllMovie

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[RCQ-1] "Vincent et moi". Culture et communications, Quebec. 24 October 1990. Retrieved 21 March 2019.

[2] "Oldest Person". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 24 February 2014.

[NYTimesDeath-3] Whitney, Craig R. (5 August 1997). "Jeanne Calment, World's Elder, Dies at 122". New York Times. Retrieved 4 August 2008.

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