Lust for Life (1956)
122 min -
Biography | Drama -
26 December 1956 (Sweden)
Ratings: 7,3/10
The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Writers: Norman Corwin (screenplay), Irving Stone (novel)
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald
In brief, the plot of this film ( as I've understood ) is one of Gogh's creative periods, showing us his magnetic power as an artist with some insane inner world, his relationships with his brother and the society. It starts with the life of van Gogh as a missioner worker, who had a very bad health status ( actually, his mind was in gloom ) He's lost all his possessions, goods, was nearly extreme conditions of living, the period of a real crisis - but eventually he was supported by his brother Theo , who found his relative , sinking up to the down of social man - he took him away to Netherlands . At home, Vincent decided to concentrate his powers to the field of painting , and so he isolated himself from the outer world just to produce things, that can bring humanity to people . He couldn't live for a long without some care and support, so he tried to live with somebody - but his attempts were fails, he wanted to be with family, and even tried to ask his cousine to live with him - but she had to dismiss his proposal. He worked hard, tried to use his imaginary world to create something more ambiguous, filled with paint of your own soul, like a skinned with yourself body . He found a young prostitute to live with him ,who had become his model and his housekeeper.He acquired some technical proficiency confining himself almost entirely to drawings. Theo continued to help and support his brother financially . He visited his cousin Anton , a landscape painter - who offered brother Vincent to teach how to work with color and oil With time he had improved his skill in oil painting more and came to Paris in order to join some separate artists to use some new techniques and discuss some new features in painting . Vincent met Gauguin, and others painters , who had some similar aims to do. He knew much new about the world of post-modernist France and worked together with Gauguin , they had similar features, but they were too distant from each other in ideas and thoughts . After some time he had to come back home and continue his work in Netherlands. Theo, who had understood the status of his brother especially sensitive could ask for a doctors help. During his last years Vincent van Gogh began to drink much , and especially an absent - the poison of a "green fairy", the potion, which had lead to some serious epileptic disease and Theo decided to bring his brother to a hospital and after a year back to Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, and in that period , during a walk he suddenly shot himself with his last words in the hospital ( where the doctors were trying to save him) , which Theo reported , - last words as "The sadness will last forever."
Well, I like this film and plot of this story, as the life of such world-famous artists will always be interesting for people, who are really fond of esthetic beauty . The life of van Gogh is shown without any unnecessary features, a bright canvas was combined with the mediocrity of his day, and the flash joy of his mind was slowly fading by a very sulfur palette, so as we are have to live in the modern world.
The director of this film, Vincent Minnelli ( by the way a famous husband of a famous Judy Garland and with their famous daughter - Liza Minnelli ) could transform the story of Irving and some biographical notes of Theo on the screen - to give a chance for a mass to live several hours in the world of Gogh's post- modernism - to show us the beautiful world of art . And of course, the cast is really favotable, Kirk Douglas, as Vincent van Gogh, Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin and James Donald as Theo van Gogh could create a special mental trio, playing with our thoughts and senses. This film is my first time, when I can observe and discuss the life of a famous artist ( Jack as an artist in "Titanic" does not count :D) and this experience is very bright.
122 min -
Biography | Drama -
26 December 1956 (Sweden)
Ratings: 7,3/10
The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.
Director: Vincente Minnelli
Writers: Norman Corwin (screenplay), Irving Stone (novel)
Stars: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald
In brief, the plot of this film ( as I've understood ) is one of Gogh's creative periods, showing us his magnetic power as an artist with some insane inner world, his relationships with his brother and the society. It starts with the life of van Gogh as a missioner worker, who had a very bad health status ( actually, his mind was in gloom ) He's lost all his possessions, goods, was nearly extreme conditions of living, the period of a real crisis - but eventually he was supported by his brother Theo , who found his relative , sinking up to the down of social man - he took him away to Netherlands . At home, Vincent decided to concentrate his powers to the field of painting , and so he isolated himself from the outer world just to produce things, that can bring humanity to people . He couldn't live for a long without some care and support, so he tried to live with somebody - but his attempts were fails, he wanted to be with family, and even tried to ask his cousine to live with him - but she had to dismiss his proposal. He worked hard, tried to use his imaginary world to create something more ambiguous, filled with paint of your own soul, like a skinned with yourself body . He found a young prostitute to live with him ,who had become his model and his housekeeper.He acquired some technical proficiency confining himself almost entirely to drawings. Theo continued to help and support his brother financially . He visited his cousin Anton , a landscape painter - who offered brother Vincent to teach how to work with color and oil With time he had improved his skill in oil painting more and came to Paris in order to join some separate artists to use some new techniques and discuss some new features in painting . Vincent met Gauguin, and others painters , who had some similar aims to do. He knew much new about the world of post-modernist France and worked together with Gauguin , they had similar features, but they were too distant from each other in ideas and thoughts . After some time he had to come back home and continue his work in Netherlands. Theo, who had understood the status of his brother especially sensitive could ask for a doctors help. During his last years Vincent van Gogh began to drink much , and especially an absent - the poison of a "green fairy", the potion, which had lead to some serious epileptic disease and Theo decided to bring his brother to a hospital and after a year back to Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, and in that period , during a walk he suddenly shot himself with his last words in the hospital ( where the doctors were trying to save him) , which Theo reported , - last words as "The sadness will last forever."
Well, I like this film and plot of this story, as the life of such world-famous artists will always be interesting for people, who are really fond of esthetic beauty . The life of van Gogh is shown without any unnecessary features, a bright canvas was combined with the mediocrity of his day, and the flash joy of his mind was slowly fading by a very sulfur palette, so as we are have to live in the modern world.
The director of this film, Vincent Minnelli ( by the way a famous husband of a famous Judy Garland and with their famous daughter - Liza Minnelli ) could transform the story of Irving and some biographical notes of Theo on the screen - to give a chance for a mass to live several hours in the world of Gogh's post- modernism - to show us the beautiful world of art . And of course, the cast is really favotable, Kirk Douglas, as Vincent van Gogh, Anthony Quinn as Paul Gauguin and James Donald as Theo van Gogh could create a special mental trio, playing with our thoughts and senses. This film is my first time, when I can observe and discuss the life of a famous artist ( Jack as an artist in "Titanic" does not count :D) and this experience is very bright.
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