Loving Vincent

Loving Vincent
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyTristan Oliver
Łukasz Żal
Edited by
Music byClint Mansell
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 12 June 2017 (2017-06-12) (Annecy)[2]
  • 22 September 2017 (2017-09-22) (United States)[1]
  • 6 October 2017 (2017-10-06) (Poland)[3]
  • 13 October 2017 (2017-10-13) (United Kingdom)
Running time
95 minutes[4]
Countries
  • Poland
  • United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget$5.5 million[5]
Box office$42.1 million[6]

Loving Vincent is a 2017 adult animated drama film about the life of the painter Vincent van Gogh, in particular the circumstances of his death. It is the first fully painted animated feature film.[7][8] The film, written and directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman, is a Polish-UK co-production, funded by the Polish Film Institute, and partially through a Kickstarter campaign.[9]

First conceived as a seven-minute short film in 2008,[7] Loving Vincent was realized by Dorota Kobiela, a painter herself, after studying the techniques and the artist's story through his letters.[10]

Each of the film's 65,000 frames is an oil painting on canvas, created using the same techniques as Van Gogh by a team of 125 artists drawn from around the globe.[8][11] The film premiered at the 2017 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.[2] It won Best Animated Feature Film Award at the 30th European Film Awards in Berlin and was nominated for Best Animated Feature at the 90th Academy Awards. The film marked Helen McCrory's final film role before her death in April 2021.[12]

  1. ^ a b "Loving Vincent is Released in Poland, Canada and Vietnam". Loving Vincent. Archived from the original on 10 February 2018. Retrieved 19 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b Mayorga, Emilio (14 June 2017). "'Loving Vincent' Gets Standing Ovation at Annecy". Variety. Retrieved 7 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Loving Vincent". Altitude. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  4. ^ "Loving Vincent (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
  5. ^ "Van Gogh, a new film and a tantalising question: was Vincent murdered?". The Daily Telegraph. 27 June 2016. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Loving Vincent (2017)". The Numbers. Retrieved 21 April 2018.
  7. ^ a b Macdonald, Fiona (16 October 2017). "Loving Vincent: The film made entirely of oil paintings". BBC. Retrieved 21 October 2017.
  8. ^ a b "Łukasz Żal – Lumière Award and Honorary Fellowship". The RPS Journal. Vol. 159, no. 9. Bristol: Royal Photographic Society. September 2019. pp. 614–620. ISSN 1468-8670.
  9. ^ "Watch the Mesmerizing Trailer for a Movie About Van Gogh Fully Animated From Oil Paintings". Slate. 29 February 2016. Retrieved 2 March 2016.
  10. ^ "An interview with 'Loving Vincent' director Dorota Kobiela". The Daily Californian. 28 September 2017. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  11. ^ "How do you paint 65,000 pictures like Van Gogh?". BBC. 29 October 2016. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  12. ^ "Helen McCrory death: Actor dies from cancer, aged 52". The Independent. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 23 January 2022.