Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti
Cohen Media Group | Release Date: July 11, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
5
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerJul 13, 2018
It’s a perplexing, fascinating, maddening movie, not quite like any other film biography of a famous painter, most of which tend to be equal parts ho-hum and hokum. Read full review
70
Village VoiceSimon AbramsJul 12, 2018
Cassel’s Gauguin may ultimately be a lightweight cinematic descendant of the monstrous European pioneers that Klaus Kinski played in Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcarraldo, but he’s also both menacing and pitiable enough to make Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti riveting on a moment-to-moment basis. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinJul 11, 2018
The film takes liberties with certain truths about Gauguin and his time in the tropics, yet despite — or maybe because of — its concoctions manages to produce a highly compelling central character. Read full review
63
Film Journal InternationalDaniel EaganJul 12, 2018
Cassel, one of France's singular talents, delivers an absorbing performance, committing to his role on both mental and physical levels. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinJul 12, 2018
Although the script is based on Gauguin’s own writing, the film presents him as such a gloomy Gus that he might have swapped souls with his onetime pal Van Gogh. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisJul 20, 2018
It’s never easy to translate visually the inner turmoil of a struggling artist, and “Gauguin” is a prime example of that. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedJul 13, 2018
The film has beautiful cinematography and occasional peaks of high drama, but lacks the kind of significant tempo necessary to sustain enough interest for nearly two hours to keep a viewer focused. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyJul 11, 2018
The film is beautiful in spots, and features a believably tormented performance by Vincent Cassel as Gauguin, but unfortunately it has only a hazy idea of what it wants to be about. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijJul 11, 2018
What keeps the material from feeling too scattershot is the vitality of Cassel’s performance, which is full of life even when he’s not always in the best of health. He’s a much-needed charismatic center that almost manages to keep the entire enterprise together. Read full review
38
Slant MagazinePat BrownJul 9, 2018
Gauguin represents for the film no less an ideal Romantic subject than the Polynesians represented for the painter himself: penniless, chronically ill, and living in self-imposed isolation—the very embodiment of the suffering artist. Read full review
30
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJul 10, 2018
Content to be yet another great-man biopic, the movie would rather sanitize than probe. Read full review
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