Director Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman
Starring Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn & Robert Gulaczyk
Rated M
Score 6/6

In a story depicted in oil painted animation, a young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist’s final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.

Loving Vincent is the world’s first fully painted animation feature. For those of you who are interested each of the film’s 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, using the same technique as Van Gogh, created by a team of 100 painters.

Going into Loving Vincent I really did not do any homework, for the record I am completely unfamiliar with the life of Vincent van Gogh except for maybe for that episode of Dr Who, Vincent and the Doctor (I’ve no doubt came across van Gogh’s art at other points in my life, this is just the first thing that came to mind). Anyway, this is a gorgeous movie to watch and the painters involved with the production of this movie should rightfully be proud of their work. There is just so much to love about this movie that you will find yourself pausing it random just to admire the attention to detail of the artwork.
There was probably one actor involved with the production that I was familiar with Chris O’Dowd, I found that I really enjoyed Eleanor Tomlinson performance as Adeline Ravoux.