At Eternity's Gate

[Greg]

It's the last days of Van Gogh in Arles. According to the synopsis, the movie explores the case that Van Gogh was murdered. I don't know. I didn't get that far.

It was all very arty and self absorbed. Lots of tiny town focus on the camera. Weird shots for the sake of being weird. Maybe the filmmaker thought he was going into the mind of Van Gogh. One of the few fun things was recognizing the settings for some of Van Gogh's paintings. But then they kept doing that and I lost interest.

I got up to the point where he was in the asylum after being attacked by the locals.

[Drunk Monk]

Agreed on the jiggly camera work and the half blurred lens.  It got very preachy as it pondered Vincent's madness, debating art, nature, the divine. It's been so long since I read the letters between Vincent and Theo and I wondered how much was extracted from that.  Dafoe delivers like he always does. The dialog with Mads was framed way too close.  At the same time, it pulled off some interesting shots - the parting dialog between Vincent and Gauguin was a swirling one-er shot that was impressively choroegraphed. I did like how their relationship was depicted. The discussion with Theo with the overlapping images and dialog sort of works, sort of fails.  There's some glimmering moments but overall, it gets drowned by it's own artsiness.  The final reveal about the notebook was interesting, although I remember when that happened.  Stacy liked it.  I was too distracted by the awkward camerawork - some worked but most failed.  Star Wars factor 2: Erso & Poe.

Ultimately, Loving Vincent tells the same story, only it's more spectacular.  See that http://www.brotherhoodofdoom.com/doomFor...p?tid=4235