Lust for Life
Lust for Life

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Vincent Van Gogh is the archetypical tortured artistic genius. His obsession with painting, combined with mental illness, propels him through an unhappy life full of failures and unrewarding relationships. He fails at being a preacher to coal miners. He fails in his relationships with women. He earns some respect among his fellow painters, especially Paul Gauguin, but he does not get along with them. He only manages to sell one painting in his lifetime. The one constant good ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Lust for Life:

Kirk Douglas
Anthony Quinn
James Donald
Pamela Brown
Everett Sloane
Niall MacGinnis

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Vincent Van Gogh is the archetypical tortured artistic genius. His obsession with painting, combined with mental illness, propels him through an unhappy life full of failures and unrewarding relationships. He fails at being a preacher to coal miners. He fails in his relationships with women. He earns some respect among his fellow painters, especially Paul Gauguin, but he does not get along with them. He only manages to sell one painting in his lifetime. The one constant good in his life is his brother Theo, who is unwavering in his moral and financial support.

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Chicago Reader - 9/10 by Drew HuntIn a compositional sense, the film has a realistic feel, but Minnelli’s graphic mise-en-scene and poetic transitions give the impression of moving paintings, and when the film is at its most dazzling, there’s a sense that the director is reshaping the very nature of existence.
Creative Loafing - 9/10 by Matt BrunsonThe Best Actor Oscar that year went to Yul Brynner for his broad emoting in The King and I, but Douglas -- in one of the defining performances of his career -- would have been a far more deserving winner.
Classic Film and Television - 9/10 by Michael E. GrostHorrifying - but informative - tragic biography of Van Gogh, with a look at his painting technique and location filming of the places he lived.
LarsenOnFilm - 8/10 by Josh LarsenLust for Life features exhilarating scenes of Van Gogh at work, often set in the locations of some of his most famous paintings and punctuated with close-ups of the original artwork. Like the 2017 animated experiment Loving Vincent, the movie functions not only as a biopic, but as an exercise in aesthetic reinterpretation.
Chicago Tribune - 8/10 by John PetrakisBoth the script and the performance of this picture have a striking integrity in putting forth the salient details and the surface aspects of the life of van Gogh.
Village Voice - 8/10 by Edwin FancherDespite half-a-dozen recent attempts to "correct" this biopic, Minnelli's agonised portrait of the life of Vincent Van Gogh remains the definitive movie word on the subject.
EmanuelLevy.Com - 7/10 by Emanuel LevyOne of Minnelli's best pictures, a visually stunning portrait of Van Gogh, splendidly played by Kirk Douglas
Movie Metropolis - 7/10 by John J. PuccioThe movie, attractive as it may be, never 'breaks through the iron wall' between what is felt and what is expressed, the very wall that van Gogh himself strove to overcome.
Los Angeles Times - 6/10 by Suzanne MuchnicGorgeous landscapes and paintings provide respite from the film’s overwrought emotion.
The Guardian - 6/10 by Alex von TunzelmannA watchable biopic, backed up with excellent historical research.

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