There has never been a film like this. A Polish/British collaboration involving the creation of 65,000 paintings in the style of Vincent Van Gogh, "Loving Vincent" has to be seen to be believed. Van Gogh's story is here told as the paintings are animated in dizzying splendor. The dream-come-true of directors of Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, it took 125 painting animators to create the 65,000 oil-painted frames incorporating 120 of Van Gogh's better-known works---a process that took ten years to complete. I am not really sure why the directors felt it was necessary to tell the story as a sort of murder mystery, but I can tell you that the use of Don McClean's beautiful song "Vincent" aka "Starry, Starry Night" to close the film was exactly right. A remarkable tribute to a glorious artist who sold a grand total of one painting in his lifetime.
Review of Loving Vincent
