Film
At Eternity’s Gate (12A)
Dir. Julian Schnabel, US/UK/France, 2018, 110 mins.
Cast. Willem Defoe, Mads Mikkelsen, Oscar Isaac, Emmanuelle Seigner.
Painter and director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) has created this unorthodox but reverent account of Vincent van Gogh’s troubled last days. Schnabel devotes much of At Eternity’s Gate to the act of creation itself, presenting the Post-Impressionist master’s artistic process as a visceral and internal experience while Dafoe, as Van Gogh, conveys the strenuous physicality of painting. The result is a kaleidoscopic and immersive film about being alive and reaching, through art, for the eternal — and about the beauty and wonder Van Gogh left behind, unaware of the profound impact it would have
Cast. Willem Defoe, Mads Mikkelsen, Oscar Isaac, Emmanuelle Seigner.
Painter and director Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) has created this unorthodox but reverent account of Vincent van Gogh’s troubled last days. Schnabel devotes much of At Eternity’s Gate to the act of creation itself, presenting the Post-Impressionist master’s artistic process as a visceral and internal experience while Dafoe, as Van Gogh, conveys the strenuous physicality of painting. The result is a kaleidoscopic and immersive film about being alive and reaching, through art, for the eternal — and about the beauty and wonder Van Gogh left behind, unaware of the profound impact it would have
