Loving Vincent

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Original title: Loving Vincent
Year: 2017
Running time: 95 min.
Country: Poland
Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman
Screenwriter: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, Jacek Dehnel
Music: Clint Mansell
Cinematography: Animation, Tristan Oliver, Lukasz Zal
Cast: Animation, Douglas Booth, Helen McCrory, Saoirse Ronan, Aidan Turner, Eleanor Tomlinson, Chris O'Dowd, Jerome Flynn, John Sessions, Holly Earl, Robert Gulaczyk, James Greene, Bill Thomas, Martin Herdman, Josh Burdett, Richard Banks, Shaun Newnham
Producer: Co-production Poland-United Kingdom-United States; BreakThru Productions / Trademark Films / Silver Reel / Odra Film / Centrum Technologii Audiowizualnych / Polski Instytut Sztuki Filmowej
Genre: Animation. Drama | Biography. Painting
Synopsis / Plot: 'Loving Vincent' is the world's first feature length painted animation, with every shot painted with oil paints on canvas, just as Vincent himself painted. Painting Animation Work Stations (PAWS) are the work stations, specially invented and patented by BreakThru Productions, to create an extraordinary work space that allows thirty painters to complete the 80-minute 'Loving Vincent' movie in two years. The painters have hand painted 56,800 frames, inspired by the style and the hand of van Gogh.

Awards: 2017: Academy Awards: Nominated for Best Animated Feature

2017: Golden Globes: Nominated for Best Animated Feature Film

2017: BAFTA Awards: Nominated for Best Animated Film

2017: Shanghai International Film Festival: Best Animated Film

2017: Annie Awards: Nominated for Best Independent Film, Screenplay & Music

2017: Annecy Film Festival: Audience Award

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2017: European Film Awards: Best Animated Film

2017: National Board of Review (NBR): Top Independent Films

2017: Critics Choice Awards: Nominated for Best Animated Feature

2017: Chicago Film Critics Awards: Nominated for Best Animated Feature

2017: Satellite Awards: Nominated for Best Animated Feature

2017: David di Donatello Awards: Nominated for Best European Union Film

Critics' reviews

"The questions are interesting, but not quite sufficiently dramatized to sustain 'Loving Vincent' for its full length. As the story limps and drags, the viewer also becomes accustomed to the images"

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"[It] brings a poetic sense of tragedy to the last act of van Gogh’s life (...) It’s the sensitivity the film shows toward its subject that ultimately distinguishes this particular oeuvre"

Peter Debruge: Variety
"It’s a plot device that keeps the suspense afloat but can also feel somewhat manufactured, if not downright hammy (...) [It] is appropriate enough for an artistic homage"

Jordan Mintzer: The Hollywood Reporter
"An extraordinary (and entirely demented) labor of love that makes for a wan and uneven viewing experience"

David Ehrlich: IndieWire
"As moving pictures, though, the brushstrokes have an unexpected pull in this uneven but deeply felt homage."

Sheri Linden: Los Angeles Times
"Damned if 'Loving Vincent' isn’t one of the most lunatic labors of love to appear on movie screens this year. And in that sense, a fitting, miraculous tribute to its subject."

Joe McGovern: Entertainment Weekly

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