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Wednesday, March 13, 2019

At Eternity's Gate (2018)

Willem Dafoe once again has a stellar performance.
It is not hard to enjoy his portrayal of complicated men who we don't really get to know very well on screen, but who we are interested in.
This film focuses on Van Gogh in the last years of his life and there is really nothing new here.  That in and of itself is noteworthy, because what DaFoe presents to us is an intense impressionistic portrayal of an intense man, driven to paint and maybe a little bit on the spectrum in terms of his inability to really relate with the common man.  He was lucky to have a brother who not only loved him but supported him financially, and I think that buffered him a bit.  In the end it was not enough, and as the film moves through those last weeks of Van Gogh's life we see the inevitability of that outcome.

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