Rating of
3/4
At Eternity's Gate - Review
Matthew Brady - wrote on 04/10/19
Madman: "Are all painters crazy?"
Vincent Van Gogh: "Only the great ones."
I hate kids, but I love Dafoe and Gogh.
'At Eternity’s Gate' is a flawed movie with questionable editing choices and a disjointed narrative, but I wish more biopics was presented as poetic as this, because this connected with me on a personal level. No words can explain that mysterious feeling.
Willem Dafoe is so good it's jaw dropping. Dafoe lives and breathes as the melancholic painter Vincent Van Gogh. The intensity and humanity is felt, sometimes without words.
The cinematography is impeccable with the use colors stripped from Vincent's paintings. Beautiful, still and often peaceful. The close ups and POV shots mix with hand-held camera would occasionally make me feel unease with a sense of claustrophobia, which I imagine an unstable person would experience.
Not for everyone as I've already seen both sides, yet there's a lot to appreciate and admire. This is pure art, rather than a movie.
