Review of Loving Vincent (2017) by Brunovn00 — 31 Mar 2019
A visually stunning experimental animated film...But that's about it. The weak point of this movie is basically everything except the beautiful and unbelievable animation.
The Good: -Without a doubt, the best of this movie is the animation.A visually stunning experimental animated film...But that's about it. The weak point of this movie is basically everything except the beautiful and unbelievable animation.
The Good:
-Without a doubt, the best of this movie is the animation. Every single frame is incredible, it's a love letter to Vincent Van Gogh as the visual style is based on Van Gogh's paintings and some scenes of the movie are direct references to some of his most iconic works of art. I'm impressed of the effort from all of the animators to make this movie a moving painting.I would actually watch this movie again just to admire the animation.
-I think the acting was solid for the most part.
The Bad:
-The script and story. This is basically some sort of "crime investigation" film, as the focus of the movie is the investigation of the true causes of Van Gogh's death. That's obviously not the problem, the problem is that it's a very repetitive movie. There's one scene of someone talking to another person, then that person talks about something he knew about Van Gogh in a flashback, and then that someone walks and talks to another person, that other person talks about Van Gogh in a flashback again and so on. By the fourth time this happened I was like "Oh, not again". And that's the major problem.
-Because of the repetitive story structure, there's no character development and it results in an overall forgettable movie.
I would obviously recommend this movie if you're interested in animation or you're an animation student as this is just an amazing movie visually speaking. But if you're not interested in animated movies...Well, I think I can't really recommend it.
I give it a 7/10 because the animation gives it tons of extra points, if this was a standard live action movie, then I would've give it a red score.
This review of Loving Vincent (2017) was written by Brunovn00 on 31 Mar 2019.
Loving Vincent has generally received very positive reviews.
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