Synopsis
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
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Cast
- Tim RothVincent Van Gogh
- Paul RhysTheodore 'Theo' Van Gogh
- Adrian BrineUncle Cent
- Jean-François PerrierLéon Boussod
- Yves DangerfieldRené Valadon
- Hans KestingAndries Bonger
- Peter TuinmanAnton Mauve
- Marie-Louise StheinsJet Mauve
- Oda SpelbosIda
- Jip WijngaardenSien Hoornik
Recommendations
- 100
Washington Post
Vincent & Theo is more than art appreciation, it is a treasure in its own right, unframed and arcing in the projector's light. - 100
Boston Globe
Vincent and Theo is one of the great Robert Altman films... It's Altman's most structurally conventional film, although it's filled with such trademarks as overlapping conversations. It's also his most personal and deeply felt. [16 Nov 1990, p.81] - 90
Variety
One of Robert Altman’s most cinematically conventional films as well as one of his most deeply personal. - 88
Chicago Sun-Times
Altman's approach in Vincent & Theo is a very immediate, intimate one. He would rather show us things happening than provide themes and explanations. He is most concerned with the relationship that made the art possible. - 80
Newsweek
Altman has a sorcerer's ability to crack open scenes and invite us in to wander through them, and he keeps Vincent & Theo bristling with emotions and ideas. - 70
The New York Times
The enjoyment in Vincent and Theo comes more from the director's attention to art history than from his ability to interpret it anew. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Vincent & Theo looks and feels like a half-baked PBS drama, and at two hours and 20 minutes the movie is hopelessly plodding. Still, see it for Roth, whose warts-and-all portrait of Van Gogh is an offbeat triumph. - 50
Los Angeles Times
It's a tortuous, unsatisfying movie, but it's not like any other film I've ever seen about an artist, and it has sequences of blinding intensity.
