Van Gogh Passion: Seeing is believing [critique]

The animated film honored at the Annecy festival is once again visible on France 4. And in replay on France.TV.

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2017 Annecy Festival, Van Gogh's Passion was part of the special animation selection of France Télévisions last June. A few months later, here is this favorite again on France 4, this Saturday evening, as well asin replay on the site public channels.

Van Gogh's Passionit is a film of incomparable prowess with shots in real shots painted in oil in the style of the painter of Sunflowers. Vincent Van Gogh's portraits and landscapes of everyday life come to life through animation. Here is the review of First :

“We can only express ourselves through our paintings.” The authors took this sentence that Van Gogh wrote in his last letter to his brother Theo literally and tackled one of the craziest animated projects of the decade: each of the 62,450 live-action shots in the film was painted in oil in the style of Van Gogh by 90 artists from around the world! A challenge that resulted in a splendid result, impossible to transcribe in writing. You have to see it to believe it. Fortunately, Van Gogh's passion is not just a rather futile technical challenge. It follows the investigation of a postman's son into the suspicious suicide of the painter, which he traces through meetings with the people who knew him at the end, in Auvers-sur-Oise. As thrilling as a Columbo investigation, crossed by black and white flashbacks as beautiful as the color passages, the film combines beauty and suspense, poetry and documentary. Bet won, brush up.

After The Passion of Van Gogh, The Young Girl and Peasant