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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
JAN WOOLF invigilates images that meditate on Palestine, and the people who witness them
A murderous convention of crime writers, a hymn to nursing, a monster hunt, and robber baron capitalism
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a three-hander that broaches big themes, but doesn’t transcend dry academia
DAN GLAZEBROOK eavesdrops on the bourgeois intelligentsia and the stories it tells itself at this moment of crisis
JAN WOOLF is bowled over by a major retrospective for the YBA artist
“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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