Reviews of AFI Festival Movies : <i> Following are reviews for the American Film Institute Film Festival. All screenings are at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas unless otherwise indicated. : </i> : TODAY
‘Vincent’
Australia, 1987, 99 minutes, 7:45 p.m. Director Paul Cox uses Van Gogh’s articulate, passion-filled letters to his staunch, almost saintly brother Theo as the spine of this great, wrenching portrait of the artist. As John Hurt reads the letters, the camera moves across the craters and whorls of Van Gogh’s paintings, and we come as close as film allows to inhabiting an artist’s soul. A magnificent achievement.
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