“MAYBE God made me a painter for people who aren’t born yet,” Willem Dafoe’s Vincent van Gogh confides to a quizzical priest (Mads Mikkelsen) in this film set during the last two years of Van Gogh’s existence in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise in France.

This no straightforward in-depth biography but a painterly film from co-writer and director Julian Schnabel that attempts to show what it was like to be the painter and walk in his shoes.

As the poor and struggling artist traipses through the French countryside, he attempts to be at one with nature and capture the glorious sunlight.