At Eternity's Gate

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Saturday, Dec 17, 2022
2 p.m.

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General admission $9.50
Senior, Students, and DIA Members $7.50

+$1.50 online convenience fee

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Detroit Film Theatre

5200 Woodward Ave
Detroit, MI 48202
United States

USA/France/Switzerland/UK/2018—directed by Julian Schnabel | 111 minutes

Julian Schnabel’s unconventional, visionary imagining of Van Gogh’s time in Arles and Auvers-Sur-Oise might be described as the melding of striking, visual stream-of-consciousness imagery with a contemplative, spiritual center worthy of Chekhov.

Though the film’s controversial approach to Van Gogh can leave a fan of more conventional “biopics” equally dazzled and disoriented, there can be little disagreement as to the hypnotic and transfixing intense performance of the astonishing Willem Dafoe, who brings to the screen a Van Gogh both blazingly intense and achingly vulnerable. As with Van Gogh’s greatest paintings, you simply can’t look away.
 

Willem Defoe portraying Van Gogh, standing in a garden

USA/France/Switzerland/UK/2018—directed by Julian Schnabel | 111 minutes

Julian Schnabel’s unconventional, visionary imagining of Van Gogh’s time in Arles and Auvers-Sur-Oise might be described as the melding of striking, visual stream-of-consciousness imagery with a contemplative, spiritual center worthy of Chekhov.

Though the film’s controversial approach to Van Gogh can leave a fan of more conventional “biopics” equally dazzled and disoriented, there can be little disagreement as to the hypnotic and transfixing intense performance of the astonishing Willem Dafoe, who brings to the screen a Van Gogh both blazingly intense and achingly vulnerable. As with Van Gogh’s greatest paintings, you simply can’t look away.