Van Gogh on the Big Screen

For the first time ever, the paintings and drawings of Vincent Van Gogh will be presented on giant Imax screens in the new documentary film Moi, Van Gogh (I, Van Gogh) by French producer and director François Bertrand and former fashion photographer and designer Peter Knapp. The big Imax film concentrates on some 40 of the scores of works produced during the last ten years of the artist’s life, following him from Holland to Paris, Arles, the hospital at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence and finally Auvers-sur-Oise where he committed suicide in 1890. Commentary is by Van Gogh himself, in the voice of French actor Jacques Gamblin, taken from his letters, written mostly to his brother Theo. Produced in collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam; the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Holland; and the Rodin and Orsay museums in Paris, the film opens March 25 at La Géode in the Parc de la Villette in Paris, and is being released in the US as Van Gogh: Brush With Genius.

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Originally published in the March 2009 issue of France Today.