Loving Vincent (2017) directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman. Imagine the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh meet Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly (2006). The film was shot with live actors against a green screen, then the resulting film was projected onto canvases and painted in oil paints, in the style of Van Gogh, by more than 100 artists. Then the paintings were filmed again (maybe?) and rotoscoped and whatnot. Anyway, it's a visually stunning and wild animated film that took six years to make. It wrestles with the notion of identity and the truth (or truths) surrounding Van Gogh's attempted suicide by gunshot (or was it murder?) that was indeed fatal two days later. Is the story accurate and strictly biographical? No and no, but the speculation and competing truths is what lends the film some of its gravitas. Recommended.
Streaming on Netflix.
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