Many directors have made biography of Van Gogh.
But this is the first one to use Van Gogh's paintings to interpret Van Gogh himself.
So the first trailer was released at that time, which caused a global sensation. The film not only won the Audience Choice Award at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France, but also won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Animation at the Shanghai Film Festival .
The film takes the last letter that Van Gogh wrote to Theo during his lifetime as an opportunity to focus the lens on the six weeks before Van Gogh's death.
At the beginning of the movie, the old postman hopes that his son, Armand Lulan, can send this letter to Theo. Armand's reluctant attitude actually represents the psychology of a large part of the audience:
People are already dead, what's the point of sending out the letter?
But he couldn't stand the coercion and temptation of his father, so he embarked on the journey of delivering the letter.
It was in this process that Armand came into contact with some of Van Gogh’s friends during his lifetime. Through their description of Van Gogh from his own standpoint, he gradually walked into Van Gogh’s heart and realized the loneliness and misery of a genius, relatives and friends. The regret and anger of his friends at his death, as well as the cruelty and abuse of genius by the secular people.
For example, Armand’s father felt heartbroken about Van Gogh’s death, and hated that the residents of the small town jointly signed the “deportation order”, which made Van Gogh suffer considerable mental devastation, otherwise he would not choose to commit suicide. .
Armand, who was a little considerate of his father's anger, took a letter to find "Papa Donji".
He was a well-known local paint supplier and witnessed the process of Van Gogh picking up paintbrushes from the age of 28, going to Paris for artistic pursuits, creating his own style, and finally tragically passing away.
In the eyes of countless painters, Van Gogh was a genius, and he should have had a good ending: he rose to fame and became famous-but this genius failed to hold on, instead he chose to commit suicide.
He was shocked and struck by the sudden death of Van Gogh.
Following the guidance of Papa Don Quiz, Armand headed to Auvers-sur-Oise in the north of Paris-here, Van Gogh was treated by Doctor Gachet and spent the last six weeks of his life here. But he first saw the maid of Doctor Gachet's house.
In the eyes of this devout Christian, Van Gogh was a mentally insane lunatic, all he did was blasphemy: his eyes filled with madness, he spoiled food and paint at will, and his clothes were always sloppy and sloppy...
Later, Armand stayed in the "Laifu Tavern" where Van Gogh died, where he met the hotel owner Adeline.
In her eyes, Van Gogh could have lived a whole life happily, but was delayed by other purposeful people such as Dr. Gachet and the police. Talking about the situation on the night of Van Gogh's death, she was a witness to her heart. Moving with sorrow and sorrow.
While waiting for Doctor Gachet, Armand saw the young boatman by the river.
He still remembered Van Gogh's dull and gentleman style when he faced the girl.
But it was precisely this that caused him to be humiliated time and time again by the rich second generation in the town. After all, Van Gogh had no money to get close to any girls. The boatman is a clear-cut businessman. He was used to seeing the rich second generation rampant in the town, so he didn't want to help Van Gogh in the past.
But the boatman had seen Van Gogh date with Dr. Gachet's daughter Marguerite.
It’s just that Marguerite repeatedly denied it, because she regretted that she had made Van Gogh a different feeling, otherwise Van Gogh could be good friends with her father, so that he would get better treatment instead of committing suicide in the end. ...
But her father Gachet didn't think so.
This doctor who claimed to be a friend of Van Gogh's life, felt that Van Gogh was suffering from severe depression. He not only lived in deep fear, but also felt that he was a burden to his brother Theo-Dr. Gachet deplored him very much. He failed to cure Van Gogh's mental illness, and even watched him die in front of him.
The film outlines the portrait of Van Gogh with the clumsy and occasionally opposite memories and evaluations of these bystanders.
Its form is "Rashomon", but what it wants to say is clear and clear: the tragedy of genius.
In the eyes of these people, Van Gogh was a poor worm, a genius who suffered from mental illness. He lived in unrecognized fear and loneliness, but his heart was passionate about life and art. Even when he was lying in bed, he was about to die. It is life and painting.
This is like what Van Gogh said in his last letter: "Only painting can express what I want in my heart."
It was Van Gogh's attitude of taking painting as his life that gave director Dolotta Kobela this idea:
"I hope that as he wishes, his heart, the story that happened to him, will be told by his paintings."
So she found Hugh Welshman, who was also a fan of Van Gogh and won the 80th Oscar for Best Animated Short Film for "Peter and the Wolf", and invited him to make this oil painting to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Van Gogh's birth. movie.
It is precisely because they both have a kind of crazy love for Van Gogh that Dolotta and Welshman have a good relationship in film production and eventually become husband and wife.
It took the couple three years to research the correspondence between Van Gogh and his younger brother, and to complete the script of "The Beloved Van Gogh" based on the records left by the interviews with the surrounding people during Van Gogh's death.
After the script was completed, the director recruited 125 painters from 15 countries from all over the world to receive a three-week course training-in order to pursue the perfect Van Gogh style, the crew was authorized by the Van Gogh Museum and used many of Van Gogh's paintings. The original is used as a reference.
In the following four years, oil painters transformed static images into dynamics to adapt to movies. This is how the world's first oil painting film composed of 12 oil paintings per second and a total of more than 65,000 works.
In other words, in "The Beloved Van Gogh", every frame we see is a beautifully bursting "Van Gogh style" oil painting.
For example, Van Gogh's "Horse and the Train in the Distance" (1890), "Anière Bridge over the Seine" (1887), "Railroad Tracks on the Streets of Montemarcu" (1888) and "Starry Night on the Rhone" (1888) and other works, like Van Gogh's pen, came alive, slowly spreading out in front of the audience.
Even more rare is Van Gogh's most famous "Starry Sky", which is also flowing on the screen. The beauty and prosperity of the dreamland are enough to give us a glimpse of the nobility and fiery deep in Van Gogh's soul.
At that moment, we not only saw the moment when Van Gogh was painting, but also deeply felt his inner loneliness and chaos, anxiety and madness, despair and love for life.
This is reminiscent of Zhihu's question about "What's so good about Van Gogh's "Starry Sky"", and there was a very touching reply:
There are always lonely souls among all kinds of people in the world, and lonely souls can also resonate strongly, even though we are not people of the same era.
This is another theme of "The Beloved Van Gogh" that allows the audience to understand the "tragic nature of genius": that is, to let every lonely soul feel the passion of Van Gogh's life across the age.
This is the life experience that Van Gogh brings to us through his paintings. If you look closely at Van Gogh's works, you can't actually see decadence and disappointment at all. Instead, they are full of life tension, showing Van Gogh's passion for struggling and struggling in pain.
In other words, this work that pays tribute to Van Gogh in oil painting, Van Gogh's color and form, the focus is no longer to figure out why Van Gogh died. Instead, with brilliant colors and rich brushstrokes, we must cry a sorrow for a genius who has been turned away by the whole world.
It is destined that the color of "Beloved Van Gogh" will be as full of passion as Van Gogh's works, and its content will be like Van Gogh himself, passion is suppressed, emotions are trapped, and mind and body are limited... this view Although the crampedness brought by the movie will shut out a large part of the audience who are used to entertainment movies, it can provide more than ten times the nourishment of other movies.
It gives us the opportunity to walk into the heart of a genius in the way of a movie, and let us know:
Every lonely person has a starry sky in his heart.
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