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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

#9: At Eternity's Gate


The cinematography for this is wild. Close ups, tilts, swerves, downright setting the camera on the ground - on it's side! - and turning it to an upright position. Which you may not care for, there are points that feel a little disjointed. You can consider it a parallel to Vincent's behavior if you like.

Unlike last year's "Loving Vincent", where we saw snippets of the artist through the subjects of his work, this one is a front-seat to a visionary of things we can't see, clinging to any person who remotely likes him.

It's about how Van Gogh feels things so deeply in nature, in wanting to insert every emotion into his paintings, that he loses himself for minutes at a time.

I enjoy movies like this with strong biopic leanings but do not start out from birth to death in a Power-point esque production. There's time to stop and admire things as Vincent does.

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