Vincent (1987 film)
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| Directed by | Paul Cox |
| Written by | Paul Cox |
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| Narrated by | John Hurt |
Release date | 1987 |
Running time | 95 minutes |
| Box office | AU$301,205 (Australia)[1] |
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent van Gogh is a documentary film by Australian director Paul Cox, exploring the last eight years of the artist's life. Cox was attracted to the project because of his personal admiration for Van Gogh:
I found him such a compassionate, wonderful human being. That attracted me above all. I found him always honest, always real, always doing his utmost, and I related very much to his type of loneliness. It's the loneliness, the dreadful loneliness that I've known all my life. That was still much stronger for me when I tried to become a film-maker - you know, up to 30, 35, I was terribly alone. I was not equipped for the world at all, and, at that level, that is a very similar background to Vincent.[2]
The screen images consist of a wide selection of the paintings and sketches, shown in a chronological sequence, supplemented by shots of the locations he lived in, and a number of dramatised reconstructions of biographical events.
The voice-over narration by John Hurt employs the letters of Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo.
The film was a popular hit on the art house circuit and ran for two years in New York.[3]
References
- ^ "Australian Films at the Australian Box Office", Film Victoria accessed 24 October 2012
- ^ "Interview with Paul Cox", Signet, 13 January 2001 accessed 18 November 2012
- ^ David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p114
External links
- IMDb Profile
- Vincent at New York Times
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