I'd the good fortune of studying Van Gogh academically (FE), so much of the visual side of
LV was familiar to me. It's prior experience and the hand-painted (in oils) film frames (66,960 of them!) that kept me interested in the telling, because the story itself arguably doesn't have the power to do it alone. Set one year after the painter's death, it uses 94 of his works, as either inspiration or setting, within which a questioning young man attempts to posthumously deliver the subject's final later to his brother. The people he meets and the opinions they give form a picture of the troubled painter's final days.
The contemporary scenes are rendered in Van Gogh's distinctive style; it works like a rotoscoped film, so is spectacular but can be a little tremulous at times. The B+W flashbacks are much steadier and appear to have more detail.
3 starry nights out of 5
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