This is an astonishing feat. When animated shorts are nominated for Academy Awards, they frequently run 10 to 15 minutes. How a group of artists were able to "paint" the scenes and incorporate great paintings into a really fine story of full movie length is beyond my comprehension. Van Gogh is dead and so is his brother, Theo. It is thought that he took his own life for whatever reason. Lord knows he had enough issues, including his utter genius. A family friend is dispatched to deliver a last letter from the great artist to his brother, but when the friend arrives, he find Theo is dead. This guy has his own issues and at first tires of his task, but when he finds that there is some suspicious stuff relating to the "suicide," he becomes entrenched in solving the case. A running theme is that Van Gogh had no weight because of his lack of commercial success and, beside that, he was weird. As the friend gets into the case, we get to know that there were people who cared about him and liked him, but they also didn't do much to hold him up. As others have said, this is an amazing expression of the painter''s world, put before us through his paintings. One other thing. Don't leave the theater too soon because there are some great closing items that one shouldn't miss.
Review of Loving Vincent
