Vincent and Theo.
Cast: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Adrian Brine, Yves Dangerfield and others
Director: Robert Altman
Synopsis.
The film tells about a mad life of a great artist Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theodore who supported him secrificing his own private life, work, health and even reputation...Their relationship is something more than a simple brotherly love. Dragging out a miserable existence, Vincent slowly goes mad and doesn't cease to shock Theo with his crazy acts up to his death. Vincent's death becomes a hard blow to Theo and after great artist's decease his the same great brother also departs his life...
Review.
"Vincent and Theo" is a very specific film. It can refer to the category of "another movie" which is not for a general public. But admirers of Van Gogh's works will probably relish this movie because it contains a lot of scenes with drawing process of his famous pictures. The film is built up very specifically. An intricate plot, a constant anxious background music, a lot of silent scenes and the direction of the film in whole create an atmosphere of madness and even insanity. At first sight the film seemes absurd and difficult, but that's the main trick of the movie! It was created to show a reality of the great artist's life. And his reality is following:
Vincent loses his faith in God. But he manages to find a substitution for it. This is art. Art becomes everithing for him: his religion, his God, his life.Moreover, (if we consider his attitude to art deeper) it becomes even more important than his family. Actually family relationship became the main impact to his current condition. Vincent loses his faith in his family that doesn't approve of his wish to be a painter. He wants his brother Theo to help him to sell his paintings, but seeing his misunderstanding, his censure, Vincent shrinkes into himself deeper and deeper. The feeling of needlessness makes Vincent shelter a prostitute, who also leaves him eventually. The feeling of loneliness and the great power of art gradually bring him to madness.
It would be wrong to assume that this film touches upon only Vincent van Gogh's life. Actually the plot is built up on two story lines. And the second one is a life story of Theo, Vincent's brother. The role of Theo is not secondary. This is another reality and another insanity. Theo is also mad like Vincent, but the reason of his madness is Vincent himself. Just as a painting was a sacred object for Vincent, Vincent was a sacred object for Theo. Theo is a keeper of art gallery, but his affairs go badly. Moreover, being seriously ill, Theo can't put in order his private life. And the only good thing in his problem life is Vincent. But unfortunatelly the later also begins to let him down. Suicidal attemps of his brother exhaust Theo and drive him to despair. Theodore has to balance between two extremes: The first one is the insanity of his brother which implies a prodigious love and fear for his life; and the second one is his own happy life to which he sought so long, with his wife and a future child.
But we can see, Vincent remains the most important person in Theo's life. When Theo tries to explain his wife who eats heartily and doesn't suspect about her husband's pain, that Vincent is in medhouse, we can see how it's difficult for him: he doesn't eat, he tries to find a substitution for a word "medhouse", his lips shiver and then we see his tears...And when Vincent died, Theo finaly "was broken". His life became senseless. At the end of the movie we can see him dirty, naked and delirious in a medhouse. And a logical end of this strange but touching story becomes a scene that depicts two grey gravestones with two brothers' names: Vincent van Gogh and Theodore van Gogh.
Speaking about cast, I think it's brilliant. Tim Roth is a very talented actor. And his role of Vinvent van Gogh makes us sure of it again. I think Tim Roth manage to convey such a strange and mad inner world of this artist that is reflected in his paintings. But perhaps the most outstanding role was the role of Theodore. Paul Rhys played perfectly. All tragedy, all pain and all despair are conveyed so vividly, so realistically and so professionally that it seems Paul Rhys realy became a mad person for this role.
So the movie "Vincent and Theo" is worth to watch if you want to experience another level of human relationships. So impulsive and so explosive brotherly love at the level of insanity exposes the TRUE love that is far from that word "love" which we used to use for denotation of "attachment", "sympathy" or something like that.
Cast: Tim Roth, Paul Rhys, Adrian Brine, Yves Dangerfield and others
Director: Robert Altman
Synopsis.
The film tells about a mad life of a great artist Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theodore who supported him secrificing his own private life, work, health and even reputation...Their relationship is something more than a simple brotherly love. Dragging out a miserable existence, Vincent slowly goes mad and doesn't cease to shock Theo with his crazy acts up to his death. Vincent's death becomes a hard blow to Theo and after great artist's decease his the same great brother also departs his life...
Review.
"Vincent and Theo" is a very specific film. It can refer to the category of "another movie" which is not for a general public. But admirers of Van Gogh's works will probably relish this movie because it contains a lot of scenes with drawing process of his famous pictures. The film is built up very specifically. An intricate plot, a constant anxious background music, a lot of silent scenes and the direction of the film in whole create an atmosphere of madness and even insanity. At first sight the film seemes absurd and difficult, but that's the main trick of the movie! It was created to show a reality of the great artist's life. And his reality is following:
Vincent loses his faith in God. But he manages to find a substitution for it. This is art. Art becomes everithing for him: his religion, his God, his life.Moreover, (if we consider his attitude to art deeper) it becomes even more important than his family. Actually family relationship became the main impact to his current condition. Vincent loses his faith in his family that doesn't approve of his wish to be a painter. He wants his brother Theo to help him to sell his paintings, but seeing his misunderstanding, his censure, Vincent shrinkes into himself deeper and deeper. The feeling of needlessness makes Vincent shelter a prostitute, who also leaves him eventually. The feeling of loneliness and the great power of art gradually bring him to madness.
It would be wrong to assume that this film touches upon only Vincent van Gogh's life. Actually the plot is built up on two story lines. And the second one is a life story of Theo, Vincent's brother. The role of Theo is not secondary. This is another reality and another insanity. Theo is also mad like Vincent, but the reason of his madness is Vincent himself. Just as a painting was a sacred object for Vincent, Vincent was a sacred object for Theo. Theo is a keeper of art gallery, but his affairs go badly. Moreover, being seriously ill, Theo can't put in order his private life. And the only good thing in his problem life is Vincent. But unfortunatelly the later also begins to let him down. Suicidal attemps of his brother exhaust Theo and drive him to despair. Theodore has to balance between two extremes: The first one is the insanity of his brother which implies a prodigious love and fear for his life; and the second one is his own happy life to which he sought so long, with his wife and a future child.
But we can see, Vincent remains the most important person in Theo's life. When Theo tries to explain his wife who eats heartily and doesn't suspect about her husband's pain, that Vincent is in medhouse, we can see how it's difficult for him: he doesn't eat, he tries to find a substitution for a word "medhouse", his lips shiver and then we see his tears...And when Vincent died, Theo finaly "was broken". His life became senseless. At the end of the movie we can see him dirty, naked and delirious in a medhouse. And a logical end of this strange but touching story becomes a scene that depicts two grey gravestones with two brothers' names: Vincent van Gogh and Theodore van Gogh.
Speaking about cast, I think it's brilliant. Tim Roth is a very talented actor. And his role of Vinvent van Gogh makes us sure of it again. I think Tim Roth manage to convey such a strange and mad inner world of this artist that is reflected in his paintings. But perhaps the most outstanding role was the role of Theodore. Paul Rhys played perfectly. All tragedy, all pain and all despair are conveyed so vividly, so realistically and so professionally that it seems Paul Rhys realy became a mad person for this role.
So the movie "Vincent and Theo" is worth to watch if you want to experience another level of human relationships. So impulsive and so explosive brotherly love at the level of insanity exposes the TRUE love that is far from that word "love" which we used to use for denotation of "attachment", "sympathy" or something like that.
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The film tells about a mad life of THE great artist Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theodore who supported him sAcrificing his own private life, work, health and even reputation...
... and after THE great artist's deATH his great brother also departs his life...
It can BE referRED to the category of "another movie" which is not for THE general public.
... became the main impact ON his current condition.
... and the direction of the film in THE whole create ...