Mad Dashiell is LOVING VINCENT!

Hello all. Mad Dashiell here, asking you to lend me an ear. 
I have gone out of my way to bring you no spoilers, seeing the mystery unfold is part of the experience that I highly suggest you take part in for yourselves. See it in the theaters as fast as you can, while you can, Its definitely worth it. Robert Gulaczyk stars as Vincent Van Gogh. His background is a Polish theater actor with Modjeska Theater in Legnica, known as one of Poland’s greatest theaters. Robert is well renowned for his depth of acting talent. His experience includes almost 40 roles in professional theater productions. Now he brings the amazing painter brilliantly to life in a dazzling display. 

 LOVING VINCENT -is a biographical animated drama by a team of over 100 artist's hand painting every scene on canvas with oil's over a course of seven years. You are immediately put under a spell as the starting credits roll, but nothing can prepare you for when the camera just drops through the gigantic flowing clouds we have seen in Van Goghs "Starry Night". It continues to sweep over the city shimmering vividly with color bringing everything to life as if the audience is in an absinthe fueled delirium. The cobblestones glisten like the surface of water under a city lit by burning streetlamps sweeping towards a familiar cafe terrace in Arles. It was this area in southern France that Van Gogh produced some of his best work in 1888. During this prolific period, he painted different aspects of ordinary life. One of his known pieces from this time were the portraits he did of members of the Roulin family. In this series was The Postmaster Joseph(Chris O'dowd from THOR: DARK WORLD, ST. VINCENT), who was Vincent's personal postal deliverer. He also painted his wife Augustine and their three children Armand, Camille, and Marcelle.

 

Here is an image comparison of Armand Roulin played by Douglas Booth(Appeared in Darren Aronofsky's- NOAH,THE RIOT CLUB, and co-starred in JUPITER ASCENDING)

 The story begins after Vincent's death with Postmaster Joseph finding his son Armand in "The Night Cafe" to talk with him about some unfinished business with a letter from Vincent to his brother Theo. Armond reluctantly agrees and he arrives in Paris to find that Theo is now dead too. He continues on what small amount of clues he has to go on beginning with Père Tanguy(John Session from- GANGS OF NEW YORK, THE BOUNTY, and Kenneth Branagh’s- HENRY V). Vincent had spent fond times with Tanguy the passionate painting salesman and painted 3 portraits of him, some said they marked a progression in Van Gogh's artistic style observing advances in his color methods as well as integrating different influences on the Parisian artist community. Tanguy recounts his times with Vincent as well as offering Armond all the helpful information he has before bidding the young man farewell. 

 

The images on the side are Vincent Van Gogh's original progressions and the center is a key-frame of the characters from- LOVING VINCENT.    

 Armond continues to sort through the range of different accounts from fond friends, local acquaintances, and village gossip. Through the fields and riversides Vincent painted, Armond persistently retraces the steps of a murder mystery following Vincent's Death. This causes Armond to delve deeper into the effects of madness, loneliness, alcoholism, and the sad treatment of the village idiot while facing the stigma of mental illnesses not yet understood. The film jumps back and forth with flashbacks depicting the jigsaw of events leading up to Vincent's sad demise. Vincent lived with a fiery passion for his art and everyone he tried to connect with in his later days hurt him in some inconsolable way. This causes Armond to question everyone rising to the defense of the late artist, but having done nothing to help Vincent prior, Armond eventually brings solace to his Postmaster father with Vincent's final letter. As it is read the words spill over the audience in the final wave of brilliant truth brought to us from- LOVING VINCENT. 



All I can say is LOVING VINCENT- is a phenomenal experience of high Art in magnificent proportions! Seeing the artists works spring to life before our eyes is a treat to be taken in again and again. I absolutely recommend this film. It will be a treasure to artists and film lovers alike for ages to come. Thanks for joining me, Mad Dashiell, saying farewell.