2017 · animation · drama · biography
Loving Vincent
Directed by Hugh Welchman, DK Welchman1h 35m2017
A young man arrives at the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
Our read: Loving Vincent (2017) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded animation · drama · biography entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured animation / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- signature
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