Review of Lust for Life (1956) by Derek W — 29 Aug 2007

Van gogh is the artist everyone can relate to. feels like a nicholas ray film, but is directed by minnelli.

This review of Lust for Life (1956) was written by Derek W on 29 Aug 2007.

Lust for Life has generally received positive reviews.

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Kirk Douglas takes a star turn as Vincent Van Gogh and there's a whole lot of emoting going on…

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Kirk Douglas' vision of Van Gogh is good but not great…

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Despite half-a-dozen recent attempts to correct this biopic, Minnelli's agonised portrait of the life of Vincent Van Gogh remains the definitive…

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By Guy H (77) on 18 Feb 2014

Douglas' and Quinn's performances are all top notch, but Lust for Life suffers from a superficial analysis of the life of Van Gogh and disappointing…

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Lust for Life picks up the life of Vincent Van Gogh as he is first rejected for a position as a priest…

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The Best Actor Oscar that year went to Yul Brynner for his broad emoting in The King and I, but Douglas -- in one of the defining performances…

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By Calvin C (583) on 29 Jul 2013

The creative eye of Vincente Minnelli is enough to see this film, but to have Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn makes it more of a must-see…

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When you deal with van Gogh, you deal with passion. This is the only movie about him who has that…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 28 Mar 2018

Lust for Life features exhilarating scenes of Van Gogh at work, often set in the locations of some of his most famous paintings and punctuated…

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