[
VINCENT: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF VINCENT VAN GOH screens Sunday April 27th at 1:30 pm and Wednesday April 30th at 7 pm at the Cleveland Museum of Art)
Review by Chip Karpus
This 1987 documentary from Australian filmmaker Paul Cox
ties in the with the new Vincent Van Gogh exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of
Art (credit where credit is due, however; the Toledo Museum of Art had a show
starring the culty French Impressionist about a dozen years ago). Cox, who
would later give the same sort of treatment to
NIJINSKY: THE DIARIES OF VASLAV
NIJINSKY, tells the story of Van Gogh's life through his own words and
pictures.
The wall-to-wall narration, bracingly read by thespian John Hurt,
is taken entirely from Van Gogh's letters, mostly to his brother Theo (although
there is included the momentous letter asking fellow impressionist Paul Gauguin to move in with him at
Arles).
