At Eternity's Gate - New Van Gogh biopic

At Eternity's Gate - New Van Gogh biopic Dec 10, 2018 19:41:02 GMT

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Post by Jep Gambardella on Dec 10, 2018 19:41:02 GMT

Dec 10, 2018 19:25:09 GMT Nora said:

Dec 10, 2018 17:11:14 GMT Jep Gambardella said:

I saw it over the weekend and I have mixed feelings. I love van Gogh’s paintings and I am fascinated by his tragic life – if I ever get my hands on a time machine, he will probably be the first historical figures I’d visit – so I was looking forward to this movie, especially since I really liked “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” by the same director.

I wasn’t expecting a conventional biopic but I wasn’t expecting such an “artsy-fartsy” one either. There are some stunning sequences and beautiful shots, and Willem Dafoe’s performance is pretty good (the fact that the actor is 25 years too old for the role didn’t bother me at all), but gtf out of here with your shaky camera and bizarre angles and lens glare and scenes where half the frame is out of focus. Not to mention the utterly idiotic convention of having French characters speaking English with a horribly forced French accent. Either speak French and put English subtitles, or hire an actor who can speak English with a neutral accent.

oh no. i hate that. too bad that they went for that. that messes a movie up each time i think.

Fortunately it is not throughout the movie. It is only a few minor characters that do it. There is a strange mixture of English with the actors' normal accent, French with subtitles, and English with a fake French accent. Willem Dafoe speaks several lines in passable French as well.