At Eternity's Gate

At Eternity's Gate

  • Director: Julian Schnabel
  • Writer: Jean-Claude Carrière,Louise Kugelberg,Julian Schna
  • Countries of origin: Ireland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, France, United S
  • Language: English, French
  • Release date: February 15, 2019
  • Aspect ratio: 2.35 : 1
  • Also known as: Van Gogh: En la puerta de la eternidad
  • "At Eternity's Gate" is a feature film co-produced by the United Kingdom, France, and the United States, directed by Julian Schnabel and starring William James Dafoe . It premiered on September 3, 2018 at the 75th Venice International Film Festival in Italy   .
    The film tells the story of the last time the Dutch post-impressionist painter Van Gogh spent in Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise in France, and the story of his continued creation under the pressure of being unwelcome to be seen, and finally being imprisoned in a mental hospital   .

    Details

    • Release date February 15, 2019
    • Filming locations Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
    • Production companies CBS Films, Riverstone Pictures, SPK Pictures

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $2,294,915

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $92,856

    Gross worldwide

    $11,473,638

    Movie reviews

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    • By Deontae 2022-03-20 09:02:35

      It's a world where no freaks can survive

      Why are the last few seasons of The Big Bang Theory so bad?

      Because the characters in it are no longer freaks, they all become normal people around you who get married and have children. For the audience, or for the general public, their screen meaning is gone, so the theme has become a warm family scene comedy, and it's no wonder that such a series doesn't go downhill.

      Whether it's "Favorite Starry Sky" or "Gate of Eternity", they all try to interpret the freak Van Gogh into a...

    • By Virgil 2022-01-16 08:01:59

      "The sun burns too fast in the sky of Naar"

      The director may be aware of loneliness, but he dare not act lonely (Charlie Kaufman expresses his anger). Wang Bo, who died before his death, wrote cruelly: “Guaranteed mountain is difficult to pass, and those who have lost their way; meet by the water, they are all guests from other countries.” (Wang Bo, Preface to the Pavilion of the King of Teng).

      But loneliness is actually a false proposition. First of all, loneliness is not isolated. It is...

    • By Christopher 2022-01-16 08:01:59

      Van Gogh: At the gate of eternity, it belongs to the artist's perseverance

      I’m going to talk to you about a "biographical" movie, and this time there is a film nominated for the Oscar "male protagonist".

      This one tells the story of the great artist "Van Gogh", "Van Gogh: At the Gate of Eternity", and last year's "Van Gogh: The Mystery of Starry Night", it took six years to use 60,000 hand-painted oil paintings. Completion, and different from the mystery of the starry night, "At the Gate of Eternity" is completed with a "realistic" and first-person main...

    • By Roscoe 2022-01-16 08:01:59

      A portrait of the painter [From Li Zongheng Film Critic]

      I have been looking forward to it for a long time and finally watched it.

      Julian Schnabel has filmed a painter-themed film with the same identity as his own since his debut in the film, the work that commemorates Basquiat. Coupled with the famous "Diving Bell and Butterflies" and "When the Night Comes" starring JaVale Baden, his characteristics as a "character painter" film writer have become more and more distinct. He once said that he was a painter first and then a director. He also...

    • By Esmeralda 2022-01-16 08:01:59

      [Film Review] At Eternity's Gate (2018) 7.4/10

      Painter to painter, maverick artist Julian Schnabel's 5th feature, is a spate of stream-of-consciousness flows attempting to reify the world seen through Vincent Van Gogh's eyes, played by Willem Dafoe, who possesses a high-fidelity gauntness albeit is far on the wrong side of Van Gogh's real age.

      In AT ETERNITY'S GATE, Schnabel emulates a Malickian freewheeling visual fluidity to...

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    • By Ruby 2022-03-30 09:01:09

      Gauguin and Van Gogh take a piss in the wild, saying that Impressionism is out of date. Subverting the traditional genre, it seems as common as eating and drinking. Some people are only asked to draw flowers and leaves, but never thought to draw tree roots. Flowers will always wither, but his paintings are the gates of eternity, which can keep the people in the paintings forever young. Not being able to get fifty francs to keep the maid, she had to cut off her ear and send it to the prostitute....

    • By Alivia 2022-03-30 09:01:09

      Perhaps like the (daringly) repainting of Van Gogh's painting in the movie, this is exactly what a director sees as the genius of Van Gogh. He is trapped in hallucinations, but has a discerning eye; he is impersonal, but he reciprocates; he is fragile and sensitive, but full of passion; he is poor, but rich in heart. He is willful and irritable, and will cut his ears for friends to leave; he loves nature, and suicide is not his style (the director adopts the theory of being mistakenly killed by...

    • By Libby 2022-03-30 09:01:09

      Finally, it is not a running account biopic. It mainly talks about Van Gogh's pastoral sketching time after arriving in Arles and his mental state in the final stage of his life: loneliness, fanaticism, hallucinations... "A little bit of madness is the best art." Arles saw the signs "Van Gogh painted XXX here" all the way along the way, and then saw that Van Gogh in the film was yelled and beaten by everyone, and no one appreciated him all his life, it was really distressing. This film made Van...

    • By Vern 2022-03-30 09:01:09

      In fact, it's a postcard movie. It doesn't matter that every picture can be enlarged and hung on the wall. . . . All kinds of golden yellow flashes to the optic nerve orgasm, visual Porn without sexual...

    • By Marcel 2022-03-30 09:01:09

      Unlike previous Van Gogh films, this film aims to experience the painter's sensory world and inner world. In addition, it can be linked with "Love Van...

    Movie plot

    In Paris in the late 1880s, Van Gogh ( played by William James Dafoe ) was an independent artist who was excluded from the art world. His art dealer brother Theo ( Rupert Friend ) cannot sell his works, and people are not interested in the works hanging in crowded cafes. Only Gauguin ( Oscar Isaac ) did not pursue the mainstream Parisian artists. He had a hidden appreciation for Van Gogh's paintings. Van Gogh longed to leave the gray...
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    "At Eternity's Gate" is full of director Julian Schnabel's very strong stylized images, from unfettered hand-held photography to wide-angle lenses, filters, black-screen monologues, piano soundtracks and more. Obviously, the director is not shooting a regular Van Gogh biopic, but through fragmentary fragments of his creation and life, allowing the audience to gradually enter the world of Van Gogh's thoughts. However, these unique...
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    Movie quotes

    • Madman: I'm an army man. I was a soldier.

      Vincent Van Gogh: Are all soldiers crazy?

      Madman: Oh, no, soldiers are not crazy, but officers are. All the officers are insane.

    • Madman: Can you imagine that you were a painter, not seeing the snow, not knowing what it was, what it meant?

    • Priest: Do you feel angry sometimes?

      Vincent Van Gogh: Yes.

      Priest: And what do you do then?

      Vincent Van Gogh: I go out, look at a blade of grass or a branch of a fig tree in order to calm down.