Loving Vincent (2017)

As a young girl I have always admired this bipolar artist who was accused of being a madman by people who did not know better.  He was a real genius only appreciated posthumously. (more below) One of my favorite songs while growing up was Starry, Starry Night by Don McClean.   One of my brothers was a baby and I was practically one myself when this started becoming a hit, but I appreciated this more when I started dreaming of being a painter at the age of seven.  I was told I was a very bad artist crushing my dreams, so I really did not have penchant for creating beautiful works of art until I was in my twenties.
Never let anyone tell you that you cannot do something you know in your heart you can do.  Of course, sometimes it really is physically impossible, but more often than not, when people we love don't believe we could do something, we start believing it and...
Anyways, Vincent Van Gogh, had a very colourful life and my parents and I were pleased to see his type of art come to life on the big screen.  More than 5,000 artists applied, but only 125 artists were accepted.  
The movie is visually stupendous, but mom got nauseated at the start, but when she got the hang of it, she appreciated it more.  We had ideas about his life, but the way his life was presented through Armand Roulin's investigation, which eventually led Monsieur Roulin into military life, made us know the genius in a deeper way.  He, Roulin, was just a reluctant letter deliver for a dead "mad man".  Through his trip he got to know Vincent more, ergo, we got to know the Dutch painter more through this movie.  We understood him more and respected him more.
Marguerite Gachet loved Vincent even beyond death.  She would bring him flowers and displayed his painting of her playing the piano for more than forty years.  Marguerite was only nineteen when Vincent died(he was thirty-seven), but she never loved another.
Sigh, even if Vincent Van Gogh's life is an open book, I don't want to write the whole story here.
The movie comprising of the artwork, the story, the voice talents, the direction and everything else is truly wonderful.
It is worth your time and money.
Kudos to everyone involved in film,
The lyrics: "Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)"
Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and gray Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul
Shadows on the hills  Sketch the trees and the daffodils Catch the breeze and the winter chills In colors on the snowy linen land
Now I understand What you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now
Starry, starry night Flaming flowers that brightly blaze Swirling clouds in violet haze Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue
Colors changing hue Morning fields of amber grain Weathered faces lined in pain Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand
Now I understand What you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they did not know how Perhaps they'll listen now
For they could not love you But still your love was true And when no hope was left in sight On that starry, starry night
You took your life, as lovers often do But I could've told you Vincent This world was never meant for One as beautiful as you
Starry, starry night Portraits hung in empty halls Frame-less heads on nameless walls With eyes that watch the world and can't forget
Like the strangers that you've met The ragged men in ragged clothes The silver thorn of bloody rose Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow
Now I think I know What you tried to say to me And how you suffered for your sanity And how you tried to set them free
They would not listen, they're not listening still Perhaps they never will Mystery surrounds the death of famed painter Vincent van Gogh in 1890 France.-WWW Directors: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman Written by the directors plus Jacek Dehnel CAST: Robert Gulaczyk as Vincent van Gogh
Douglas Booth as Armand Roulin
Jerome Flynn as Dr Gachet
Saoirse Ronan as Marguerite Gachet
Helen McCrory as Louise Chevalier
Chris O'Dowd as Postman Roulin
John Sessions as Père Tanguy
Eleanor Tomlinson as Adeline Ravoux
Aidan Turner as Boatman

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