(aka 'Vincent et Théo ')
directed by
Robert Altman
USA 1990
Robert Altman, so erratic in recent years, brings an artist's eye and
suffering spirit to his masterly portrait of "Vincent & Theo." This
lovely if deliberate film marks Altman's return to a more straightforward, but
by no means expected, style. A biography that plays like fiction, it tells the
story of the van Gogh brothers, stroked and brushed and globbed onto the canvas
of the screen. Altman gives us art as ordered chaos, and inspiration as a
merciless muse.
Directing from Julian Mitchell's lucid and moving screenplay, Altman focuses on
the symbiosis between the two brothers as well as the eternal struggle between
the artist and the audience, which by nature is attracted to the status quo. It
opens with an auction at Christie's, but the clamor of million-pound bids for
"Sunflowers" gives way to the slovenly artist's studio. Set largely in Paris and
Provence, this carefully researched look at mental illness and 19th-century
mores is also a triumph for the two young British stage actors, Tim Roth and
Paul Rhys, who play the artist and his art dealer brother.
Roth's Vincent is wired like a lamp cord with a short, alternately buzzing with
energy and lying quiet with desperation. A man in some terrible pain, whether it
is epilepsy or some more exotic disorder, he struggles with the savagery of his
own senses. His hair a ruffled ocher, his teeth rotten and stained from sucking
on his brushes, Vincent writhes like the cypresses of his ravishing canvases.
Theo, the quiet syphilitic, twitches and quivers like a hamster nervous in a
cage.
As seen by Altman and his director of photography, Jean Lepine, the crows become
the visual brethren of the mourners at first Vincent's and then Theo's funeral.
The sky disappears in a terrible blue glare and the grain shivers with the
unseen menace of angry old agrarian gods. Vincent shoots himself, a sacrifice to
his broken brain and the public taste of the times. And at Christie's the
ultimate travesty, bidding on a ruined man's agony. Going, going, gone.
"Vincent & Theo" is more than art appreciation, it is a treasure in its
own right, unframed and arcing in the projector's light.
Excerpt from Rita Kempley's review at the Washington Post located HERE
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Theatrical Release: September 8th, 1990 - Toronto Film Festival
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| Runtime | 2:20:10 | |
| Video | 1.82:1
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I've been one of MGM's bigger detractors in the past few years when it came to their DVD production. It distinguished itself with decided indifference when it came to their image quality and usual absentee-ism when it came to extra features. I
am quite happy though that this excellent film has been given more
digital effort in both areas. The image is both progressive and
anamorphic. Skin tones look a little red for my liking and I suspect
some manipulation but it is not excessive. The audio and subtitles are
quite adequate, and the addition of the 20 minute featurette "Film as
Art" is most welcome. This is a marvelous film folks and one that I
am excited to say that "MGM did not botch it" for their DVD edition.
Keep it up MGM!
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