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Billed as the world’s “first fully oil-painted animated feature”, Loving Vincent has tapped into the worldwide fascination with the life and work of Vincent van Gogh. First released in the US in September by Good Deed Entertainment, the film has grossed more than $3m in the territory, and has also achieved healthy box-office returns in markets including the UK, Italy and Poland — all $1m-plus success stories.
This idiosyncratic and wildly ambitious project was first conceived around a decade ago by Polish filmmaker Dorota Kobiela, who had trained as an artist before beginning to work in cinema. “While she [Dorota] was doing her research, for inspiration, she was re-reading the letters of van Gogh,” says Kobiela’s co-director and partner, Hugh Welchman. Kobiela had first encountered the letters when she was a student. She looked at them again when she was in her late 20s, precisely the age of van Gogh when he embarked on his painting career, having failed at everything else he had tried.
“Vincent’s letters for me work on many levels,” Kobiela says. On a personal level, she found them “consoling” in her own darker moments: “They are a great source of knowledge, very priva
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Our Vincent
The story of Loving Vincent begins one year after death of Vincent van Gogh, in the summer of Our hero Armand Roulin sets out to discover the truth about Van Gogh, and in doing so meets many people who knew Vincent when he was alive, and they share their memories of him with Armand.
Vincent was an avid letter writer and left behind over letters which director-writer duo Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman drew from when writing the script for the film. They felt that the story of Vincent could only be properly emotionally told if it was intimately connected to his paintings, so we used the medium of paint, and of Vincent’s paintings form the very fabric of the world in Loving Vincent.
“We cannot speak other than by our paintings”
Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo, the week before his death in
In our story, there are parts of Vincent’s life that he didn’t paint, so we came up with the idea of having flashbacks in the film. These are done in a black and white painted style, based on photographs from the era. This freed us up to show many dramatic situations from his life, without takin
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Loving Vincent - the Painted Movie of Van Gogh’s Life
A painting opens a window on a moment fixed in time. A portrait of a individ that will not age within the frame. The shape of a cloud that almost never existed. A dancer stuck alltid in an impossible pose.
Starry Night Over the Rhone
Yet painters have always strived to något som utförs snabbt exempelvis expressleverans movement, to infuse their work with life, a mixture of the ephemeral and the eternal.
This dynamic aspect fryst vatten obvious in many of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings; you can feel both the movement of the brush and the movement of the light, the wind, the water.
In “Starry Night Over the Rhone”, the stars appear to flicker - did you blink? – and the river swings gently back and forth. The painting breathes with you.
An unprecedented technical feat
But there fryst vatten another way for still images to create movement. After all, a rulle is but a collection of frames shown in rapid efterträdelse eller följd. The writer and director Dorota Kobiela (along with co-writer, co-director and producer Hugh Welchman) decided to combine her passion for painting and film to create the first fully painted feature film. The impressive result is “Loving Vincent”, currently playing