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At Eternity's Gate

2018

Julian Schnabel

Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen ...

6.2

3,127

Drama The story focuses on the time in Vincent Van Gogh’s life that he spent in Arles.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A strong, valuable and intelligent performance from Dafoe, capably captured by Schnabel (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Fluky and transporting (...) A flowingly intuitive and celebratory biopic — a bursting sunflower of a movie (...) [Schnabel] has stripped down his filmmaking in the most seductive way"	POS
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Time	"[A] delightful, mournful film (...) [Dafoe's] radiant intensity fills every corner of the film"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"It’s oddly unmoving on an emotional level (...) [It] draws the audience deep into the tormented mind of its subject. That’s due in large part to the febrile intensity Dafoe brings to the central role"	NEU
United States	Michael Nordine IndieWire	"Willem Dafoe is an inspired Van Gogh in Julian Schnabel’s impressionistic masterwork (...) Isaac plays off Dafoe brilliantly, matching his energy and magnetism"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"Many of the images feel over-familiar (...) A strong, affecting performance by Willem Dafoe (...) [It] offers little excitement or fresh insight."	NEU
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"Gratifying to watch (...) Not just for the pureness of Dafoe’s performance but for the way it lets art be both celebrated and unexplained, still as much a mystery as the man who made it."	POS
United Kingdom	Geoffrey Macnab The Independent	"Torpid Van Gogh biopic falls very flat (...) For all its formal beauty, the film never really quickens into life (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	William Bibbiani The Wrap	"Dafoe gives a towering performance in Julian Schnabel’s sensitive but unconventional film (...) Biographies of famous artists are nothing new, but 'At Eternity’s Gate' feels a little special"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny rogerebert.com	"The two most exciting things about the picture are Willem Dafoe’s performance as Vincent, and Schnabel the painter’s application of the cinema eye to Vincent’s ecstasies, miseries, and visions."	POS

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