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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051415523
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 90648
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 1990
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Van Gogh traveled to Paris and then to England to be an art dealer. He fell in love got rejected lost his job became a missionary in a coal mine got fired fell in love again got rejected took up with a prostitute painted 800 pictures went mad in Provence cut off his ear spent a year in a mental institute and committed suicide at the age of 37. He only sold one painting while alive. This award-winning film paints a kaleidoscopic impressionistic picture of the life and loves of the acclaimed artist Vincent Van Gogh; starring Golden Globe(R) winner Linus Roache (RFK) as the eccentric tormented genius.Running Time: 100 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 794051415523 Manufacturer No: E4155
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Very Barlow-ish
The author of this program, Patrick Barlow, is famous for writing radio plays in which he gets the history of the subject - whether it's art, Shakespeare, the Messiah or the Greatest story ever told, terribly, terribly wrong. He has certain "schticks" which he puts into all of his writing. It works well when he's doing a comedy, less well when he's doing a drama with comedic elements, such as this. (The young Van Gogh meets his very first landlady. He's wearing a top hat. The landlady looks at it ... Read More
Rating:  - Wretched and disrespectful
The only explanation I can come up with for this disjointed, inaccurate mess is that everyone involved in making it was high on absinthe at the time. This 1990 made-for-BBC-TV film disrespects the memory of Vincent van Gogh by portraying him as a dimwitted imbecile instead of the intelligent, well-read artist he was. I was so insulted on his behalf I couldn't even finish it.
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