Loving Vincent

Good Deed Entertainment | Release Date: September 22, 2017

8.2	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 165 Ratings

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AxeTNov 23, 2017

The concept here of making a fictional detective story based on conspiracy theory speculation of van Gogh's death via video turned into animation using commercial techniques from circa the early 2000's and Richard Linklater's pioneeringThe concept here of making a fictional detective story based on conspiracy theory speculation of van Gogh's death via video turned into animation using commercial techniques from circa the early 2000's and Richard Linklater's pioneering "Waking Life" and "A Scanner Darkly" but going a step further by hand painting each frame is simply brilliant. What's less so is actually sitting through it which doesn't overwhelmingly pass the better off at a museum than in a movie theater test.… Expand

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netflicOct 30, 2017

It is an animated film about Vincent van Gogh's last part of his life and his relationship with locals of a little town where he lived and died.

The form of the movie is quite unique. It is completely oil-panting animated. The amount ofIt is an animated film about Vincent van Gogh's last part of his life and his relationship with locals of a little town where he lived and died.

The form of the movie is quite unique. It is completely oil-panting animated.

The amount of effort that went into creation is this movie is simply astonishing.

More than 100 artists created 65,000 oil painting to be used in this film in the style of Van Gogh's works. It took them 6 years to paint those pictures. Many of van Gogh's most famous paintings could be recognized while watching the movie.

I admired the form of the film but at times it felt overly long and boring.
The script, in my opinion, is the weakest part of the movie.
In short, this film is visually stunning but otherwise not very impressive.… Expand

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LinttaFlamingoOct 21, 2017

Visually the film is gorgeous and never loses its charm, but aside from the flashback scenes that show Vincent Van Gogh, the film is basically just Armand Roulin going around town asking people about Gogh, and it got pretty repetitive. ButVisually the film is gorgeous and never loses its charm, but aside from the flashback scenes that show Vincent Van Gogh, the film is basically just Armand Roulin going around town asking people about Gogh, and it got pretty repetitive. But the fact that the movie is a fully painted film about a painter is just awesome.… Expand

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IsaacJJan 3, 2019

Here stands a film perhaps as oddly remarkable as the great artist whose demise it documents; Loving Vincent is a Polish-UK co-production charting the final days (and the shady aftermath of which) of Vincent Van Gogh. But what is trulyHere stands a film perhaps as oddly remarkable as the great artist whose demise it documents; Loving Vincent is a Polish-UK co-production charting the final days (and the shady aftermath of which) of Vincent Van Gogh. But what is truly extraordinary about this film is that it is the first animated film created entirely with oil paints, in the notable style of its eponymous painter. Loving Vincent is an ambitious visual experiment, every frame avowedly hand-painted in a pastiche of Van Gogh’s work. It’s an experiment that certainly works; landscapes swirl dreamily across the screens and oozing strokes of paint litter the faces of the film’s players. There is something strangely ethereal about the animation; it’s utterly immersive and beautiful and surely can be appreciated simply for its flair and the pain-staking commitment required to create it. The film was also shot in live-action beforehand; we see Chris O’Dowd, Saoirse Ronan and the rest of the cast embodied within the brushstrokes, in a strangely satisfying and delightfully expressive way. There’s an effortlessness and innovation to the film’s design; the same cannot be said, however, of its plot.
Though not unenjoyable, Loving Vincent’s plot is rather thin, comprised of exposition-packed flashbacks and uninspired dialogue. Over-narrated and over-simplified, it never really takes flight or makes much of an impact, despite numerous attempts. We watch as young Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth) seeks to deliver a letter, at the request of his father, from a deceased Vincent to his brother, only to become hooked in finding out the truth behind the artist’s death among the witnesses of his final days. The cast, led by Booth, are lively enough, but are not enough to distract one from a flimsy narrative that begins to feel like a tame episode of Poirot. Despite this, the film is entertaining enough and it’s clear that the true intentions of directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman is to impress via the film’s visuals rather than its story.
Loving Vincent is a definite mixed bag of a film; visually, it’s exquisite and never excessively dull, but its formulaic and uninspired plot cannot be ignored. For a movie that claims to be a biopic of Vincent Van Gogh, it tells us very little about the man itself, functioning far more as a standard who-dunnit that is gorgeous to watch but, on occasion, feels self-admiring. An interesting film that is worth watching just for its pure style.… Expand

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clem666Feb 21, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. There is absolutely no doubt of it: the visuals are extraordinary thanks to all these artists who have been working on this movie for several years. And I speak about visuals in general because this is a short way to mean that lighting is wonderful, details are omnipresent, movements are gorgeous and colours are meaningful. Those artists have successfully recreated some of the major Van Gogh's paintings and managed to have them included impressively in the movie.

Despite these points 'Loving Vincent' also could have been way different and maybe so much better than what it actually is. Only speaking about the scenario, all this project does is to add flashbacks to flashbacks to try to solve a passed potential crime. Why does this have to be so close to the investigation and crime category of movies? This totally ruins the thing! You could have made it so much more biographical, closer to Van Gogh's daily life. All we hear about him comes from people speaking about him: 'I heard this...', 'I saw that...', ... And the movie underlines the fact that everyone has a different opinion about Van Gogh and the events of his death.

The end especially could have been so much better. The last thing we see and hear is the opinion of Dr. Gachet, the main doctor of Van Gogh. And the movie ends in a certain way that we want to believe this last testimony. However it is just another opinion and we had a lot of them during the feauture. So for me this is totally an open ending that tries to erase a lot of what we saw before. The conclusion is so easy: 'he killed himself in a weird way because he was totally crazy'. And after all we have been through it is such a lame conclusion! A few inconsistencies in the movie doesn't match at all with this end.

So I want the end of this review to be far more mixed than the movie end. I think as I said that this movie is incredible by the way it has been produced and the way it looks. But I found that the stroytelling appears to be really poor to me. A lot of characters are badly introduced or unintelligible (as the simple dummy boy at the end). Not bad but could have easily been better.… Expand

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