Lust for Life

Lust for Life

  • Director: George Cukor
  • Writer: Norman Corwin,Irving Stone
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English
  • Release date: November 30, 1956
  • Aspect ratio: 2.55 : 1
  • Also known as: Zudnja za zivotom
  • Lust for Life is a biopic directed by Vincente Minnelli , George Cukor and starring Kirk Douglas , Anthony Quinn , James Donald and released on September 17, 1956.
    The film shows from the first perspective the young Van Gogh went to the mining area as a priest and then embarked on the road of art, until he found that he was not allowed to live in the world and chose to cut his own life trajectory   .

    Details

    • Release date November 30, 1956
    • Filming locations Arles, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
    • Production companies Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

    Box office

    Budget

    $3,227,000 (estimated)

    Movie reviews

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    • By Daniela 2022-08-04 20:33:16

      Lust for Life: Please Don't Sympathize with Him Easily

      In the evening, I thought there would be a color lecture, but it turned out that we were shown some paintings by Impressionist masters such as Van Gogh, Seurat, and Pissarro. Then they began to show Van Gogh's biography, adapted from the desire to live. This has to remind me of the birthday present Li Xiaoyi gave me on my 19th birthday at the beginning of the year. In the original novel "Longing for Life", Later, she also ordered a copy for herself on Dangdang. But God knows I didn't...

    • By Derrick 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      i see van gogh

      I was so calm in my heart that I watched such a movie without turning back, for no other reason, and at this moment, I felt the air around me freeze, the noisy sounds around me, I could not hear, and the sun was dimmed for it Now, Van Gogh, what exactly is the inner distress, I can't see it, but I can't touch it, but I can't comprehend it. I seem to want to go into his inner world again. There is a sentence to sum up his spiritual life, but I can find that it is fundamental. Impossible, this...

    • By Keven 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      The Life and Talents of Vincent van Gogh

      After I was a kid, I spent a book on Van Gogh
      because Van Gogh is so famous, why is he so famous? Painting is really good, and the circumstances before and after death are so different. In his short life of 37 years, he picked up a brush to paint at the age of 26. In fact, until she died, he only painted for 11 years. In 2008, he painted a large number of works, but only sold one piece, "The Red Vineyard", for 400 francs.

      What kind of personality was Van Gogh? Paranoid, stubborn,...

    • By Mervin 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      Giant Van Gogh

      I have read about Van when I was still in my college. I could not recall it complicatedly but I remember that Van was a person with great passionate feeling to love and painting. As I grew up I became more and more easier to be moved by movies and stories especially the real thing about great artist. To my some degree analysis, Van was deeply hurt by the marriage of his first lover M and his brother D. It was the time that Van was in the south area of ​​France in which it was full of sunshine...

    • By Angela 2022-04-11 09:01:07

      The painter's version of Ben-Hur

      Acting Van Gogh is like painting on canvas, some are upright, some are sincere, some are crazy, some are clumsy. Some are energetic and love to quarrel with people. Douglas' version is unmistakably sincere and missionary.

      But still like a painter's version of Ben-Hur. Like all early Hollywood movies, it's like a bottle of Mirinda, sweet and delicate with little aftertaste. It is also a brave expression of Van Gogh's life as a missionary in the Belgian mining area of ​​Bolina, as well...

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    • By Billie 2022-04-16 09:01:09

      Desire to float. Could there be a worse...

    • By Agustin 2022-04-16 09:01:09

      2 hours is really not enough to talk about life. I read this biography many years ago, and it does seem a bit rushed to watch this movie again. After all, it's a 1956 film, and it's still a bit exaggerated and has some stage effects, especially the marriage proposal scene and the rivalry with Gauguin, but overall it's not bad. This biopic is quite the main theme, and you can basically understand Vatican high life....

    • By Marcus 2022-04-16 09:01:09

      Depressed, too depressed lust for a life that can never...

    • By Paula 2022-04-16 09:01:09

      madness for life (madness for...

    • By Heloise 2022-04-16 09:01:09

      The director should be a...

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    "Lust for Life" is a biopic. The director divides the film into two parts and presents the whole process of Van Gogh's artistic career to the audience ("Film Review" review)  . From the perspectives of Van Gogh's work, emotion, and painting, the film shows several transformations of Van Gogh's spirit and painting art, reflects the artist's unique artistic spirit and personality charm, and reproduces Van Gogh's fanatical pursuit of...
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    Movie quotes

    • Anton Mauve: Oh, Vincent. I'm sorry to put off seeing you, but we artists have to be selfish, you know. We have to save our ourselves. After all with each painting, we die a little.

    • Paul Gauguin: [Addressing a small group of his artist acquaintances] The fact is, my dear friends, that you are not painters. You are, uh, tattoo artists. You are chemists with little pots of paint. You cover canvases with colored fleas. You are so busy imitating each other's tricks, you've forgotten what painting is about. You all make me sick.

    • Theo Van Gogh: Hiding away here. Wasting you're time. You've become an idler.

      Vincent Van Gogh: An idler. Yes. But there are two kinds of idlers. There's the man who's idle because he wants to be, out of laziness. How easy that is. I envy him. But, there's the other kind. The man who's idle in spite of himself. I want nothing *but* to work. Only, I can't. I'm in a cage. A cage of shame and self-doubt and failure. Somebody, believe me, I'm caged. I'm caged and I'm alone. I'm frightened.

      Theo Van Gogh: Vincent, listen to me. When we were children, I used to follow you about. If I was frightened, I'd run to look for you. If I got lost, you'd always come to find me. We're still brothers. We're friends. We can trust one another. That's stronger than any cage.