At Eternity's Gate

"A Grain of Madness is the Best of Art"

2018 1h 51m EN

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★7.0TMDB · 1,615🍅78%Rotten Tomatoes●76Metacritic★6.9IMDB · 43,835

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Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

“A Grain of Madness is the Best of Art”

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Cast

Willem Dafoe
Vincent van Gogh
Rupert Friend
Theo van Gogh
Oscar Isaac
Paul Gauguin
Mads Mikkelsen
The Priest
Mathieu Amalric
Dr. Paul Gachet
Emmanuelle Seigner
Madame Ginoux
Niels Arestrup
Madman
Anne Consigny
Teacher

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Julian Schnabel
Writers: Jean-Claude Carrière, Julian Schnabel, Louise Kugelberg
Languages: English, French
Countries: France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Ireland

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ERA

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Released 8 years ago.

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WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.

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WORLD

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International production across 5 countries: France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Ireland.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Julian Schnabel, shot by Benoît Delhomme. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Tatiana Lisovskaya. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Louise Kugelberg shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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AWARDS

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Willem Dafoe and Rupert Friend and Oscar Isaac carry the top of the cast.

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FACT

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Marketing tagline: "A Grain of Madness is the Best of Art".

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The take

Julian Schnabel directs. Benoît Delhomme behind the camera. Tatiana Lisovskaya scores. Louise Kugelberg cuts. Produced in France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Ireland. Dialogue in English, French.

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1Released 8 years ago.
2Dialogue crosses 2 languages: English, French.
3International production across 5 countries: France, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States of America, Ireland.
4Directed by Julian Schnabel, shot by Benoît Delhomme. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Original score by Tatiana Lisovskaya. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
6Editor Louise Kugelberg shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
7Willem Dafoe and Rupert Friend and Oscar Isaac carry the top of the cast.
8Marketing tagline: "A Grain of Madness is the Best of Art".
9IMDB entry: tt6938828 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
10Classified under 10 themes, including "france", "insanity", "painter", "loneliness".

The technical file

Cinematography: Benoît Delhomme
Original score: Tatiana Lisovskaya
Editing: Louise Kugelberg
Production design: Stéphane Cressend
Costume design: Karen Muller Serreau
Makeup / hair: Christian Gruau
Runtime: 111 min · 1h 51m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: At Eternity's Gate (2018)
Rotten Tomatoes: 78% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 76/100
IMDB rating: 6.9/10 · 43,835 votes
MPAA: PG-13
US box office: $2,294,915

Awards

Nominated for 1 Oscar. 3 wins & 16 nominations total

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Gimly2019-02-19
★ 4/10
I get what At Eternity's Gate was going for, visually. But that thing was not a thing i enjoyed. The framing made me rather uncomfortable, which, again, kind of the point, but not for me. Massive props to Dafoe of course, his Oscar nomination for best actor is not uncalled for, and special extra props to Mads Mikkelsen, the sequence between the two of them was far and away my absolute favourite part of At Eternity's Gate. But so much of the rest of the thing is just nature shots accompanied by violently jarring piano, and I cannot call myself a fan. Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product.
Peter McGinn2020-04-05
★ 7/10
Okay, I will freely admit up front that I rolled my eyes around about the third or fourth time we were given a top-down angle view of Van Gogh walking, walking, walking. And some of the shots went a bit too long, though I suspect there was a point being made. I do not mind being challenged by a movie's content or style, as long as it doesn't insult my intelligence. I found this movie to be interesting enough to stick with it, though we watched it at home and didn't swallow it in one sitting. Rather we watched a half-hour and then went back to it later that day. I didn't notice the shaky camera work that others have commented on, and even though in my own novels I take pride in creating realistic dialogue, I had no problem with the dialogue here that bugged still others. Except maybe for the episodes of repeated dialogue they use to try to highlight Van Gogh's slippery state of mind at these times. It didn't seem very effective to me, so perhaps a bit more subtlety might have been less of a distraction to the viewer. This movie is based on a newer biography that offers an alternate description of the painter's last few years. There is probably no way to be sure if this new theory is correct, but it at least gives one pause for thought. And thought isn't a bad thing to be inflicted with, is it?
r96sk2023-10-20
★ 6/10
Not one for me. I will say that Willem Dafoe is terrific, undoubtedly. His performance in <em>'At Eternity's Gate'</em> was honestly the only part of this 2018 release that kept my interest piqued. The support cast don't do anything wrong but don't really illuminate the film for me either. It has its heart in the right place, but as a film I didn't enjoy it. The main thing that bothered me was the camera work all around, just absolutely needless shaky cam that adds zero to what's going on onscreen - it even distracts from the main event, for me at least. It is noted that, away from that, visibly the film does look neat. I am admittedly not into art ('twas my least favourite subject at school, in fact), though even so I expected more from this. I am happy for Dafoe that this was positively received as his showing merits high praise, but it won't be one I'll be revisiting any time soon personally.