Lust for Life

Name: Lust for Life
Genre: Biography, Drama
Released: September 17, 1956
Duration: 122 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Everett Sloane, Henry Daniell, James Donald, Jill Bennett

1956

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) | Release Date: September 17, 1956 | Approved

Starring: Anthony Quinn, Everett Sloane, Henry Daniell, James Donald, Jill Bennett, Kirk Douglas, Madge Kennedy, Niall MacGinnis, Noel Purcell, Pamela Brown

Summary: The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.

Director: George Cukor and Vincente Minnelli

Genre(s): Biography, Drama

Rating: Approved

Runtime: 122 min

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TV Guide Magazine Staff (Not Credited)

Douglas gives an appropriately fiery star turn as Van Gogh, delivering some of the best work of his career. Read full review

Drew Hunt

In a compositional sense, the film has a realistic feel, but Minnelli’s graphic mise-en-scene and poetic transitions give the impression of moving paintings, and when the film is at its most dazzling, there’s a sense that the director is reshaping the very nature of existence. Read full review

Edwin Fancher

The bold and vivid colors of the paintings themselves and the sets and landscapes contribute heavily to the film's dramatic impact. [10 Jul 1957, p.8]

Suzanne Muchnic

Gorgeous landscapes and paintings provide respite from the film’s overwrought emotion. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

Throughout Lust for Life, Van Gogh, brilliantly portrayed by Kirk Douglas as a man forever on a knife-edge, struggles to explain himself to his family and to Anthony Quinn's Gauguin. However, Minnelli, with the colours he chooses - which follow those of the paintings - and with his dramatic counterpointing of events in Van Gogh's life with his canvases, undermines all explanations. Read full review

The Guardian Alex von Tunzelmann

A watchable biopic, backed up with excellent historical research. Read full review

Staff (Not Credited)

This is a slow-moving picture whose only action is in the dialog itself. Basically a faithful portrait of Van Gogh, Lust for Life is nonetheless unexciting. It misses out in conveying the color and entertainment of the original Irving Stone novel. Read full review

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