44 thoughts on “AT ETERNITY'S GATE Trailer (2018) Willem Dafoe, Van Gogh Movie”

  1. I was very disappointed In this film. It is very non-linear, which may have appealed to mentally disturbed Van Gogh, but not to the greater majority of people seeking film entertainment. The other distraction is a very ugly soundtrack with the sound of what appears to be an untuned piano being hammered on like a kitten was running across he keys. William Defoe and the other great actors in the film did the best they could with a very poorly directed film.

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  2. After watching this trailer I dont quite know what to think..Its not a very well made trailer..nearly 3mins of soundbite after soundbite. Fantastic actors but does anyone know is the movie any good?

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  3. Van Gogh ? Over rated mediocrity , elevated by a postmodernist world that has lost sight of the meaning of a true master painter. Compare Johannes Vermeer, 1665 Girl with a Peal Earring or The Martyrdom of Saint Andrew, 1628 painting by Jusepe de Ribera, Peter Paul Rubens 1577-1640, Ecce Homo or Gericault, Theodore. The Raft of the Medusa. 1819. Compare them all to Van Gogh and you will find him severely lacking the master painters touch !

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  4. I forever thought his last name was pronounced like the word 'go' as it was the mainstream pronunciation you always heard. It was only years later I learned it's pronounced 'sorta like 'gaw', a bit guttural. My German friend corrected me. Just had to get that out, lol.

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  5. Underrated Van Gogh film. Willem Dafoe captured the mood swings perfect to me on top of all the art featured. At Eternity's Gate. Art movies for art fans ❤️

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  6. I paint and draw. I don't use photographs. I often paint on location, set up and paint a landscape scene alive in front of me. It's a bit of a struggle to get the painting working, blank canvas to start, I guess like a writer looking at a blank piece of paper, things aren't so much laid down, more like they emerge with time as one works.
    I know part of the reason Van Gogh painted. There is kind of a struggle when painting, a fight almost to get something working, something on the canvas that one can live with, but when you get it going it starts to become a rush, the painting begins to help you finish it, it says I need some red here and some yellow here. Then you hang the painting on the wall at home and even though you had your face in it all day you see the painting for the first time and get high. It's a real accomplishment.
    There is much more to a Van Gogh type painter than the Youtube painters that do amazing copies of photographs. The spirit of the landscape, Van Gogh is in it, feeling the sun, squinting in the brightness, the breeze making everything sway. This spirit is absorbed by Van Gogh and travels through him and out his brush to the canvas. What emerges on the canvas is not a moment or just a scene, it's a universal symbol that a hundred years later can be felt by a viewer of the painting.
    This is not the only way to paint. The Mona Lisa was painted over time, years. This would be less of capturing a universal symbol as Van Gogh did, more like the designing and refining of a universal symbol. A perfection and synthesis of accumulated knowledge, the Mona Lisa is kind of Leonardo's theory of everything.

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  7. Try to go see it guys! So far it looks like it will be a limited release, i had to wait weeks for a a one weekend showing 80 miles out. So worth it! Has to be seen on the big screen

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  8. Will-em Da-foe
    Vin-cent van-Gogh
    Same syllables, cadence, and vowel sounds
    Can't wait. I 'm a little irked that Dafoe is about 25 years older than Van Gogh was at his oldest, but I think Dafoe will probably change my mind.

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