The book feels like a writer working within his limits and not breaking any new ground, believes KEN COCKBURN
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At Eternity's Gate (12A, directed by Julian Schnabel)
An impressionistic biography draws an outstanding performance from Willem Dafoe as Vincent van Gogh
PRAGYA AGARWAL recommends a collection of drawings that explore the relation of indigenous people to the land in south Asia, Africa and the Caribbean
CHRIS SEALE speaks to Palestinian sound artist BINT MBAREH
MARY CONWAY applauds a brave and timely two hander that explores the difference between intimacy and abuse
ANDY HEDGECOCK and MARIA DUARTE review The Thing with Feathers, Train Dreams, Sisu: Road to Revenge, and Wicked: For Good
GUILLERMO THOMAS welcomes a biography of WA Domingo, a key figure in the anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean
“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.
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