We usually write about cinemas when they are in distribution movies just released in theaters. This time we offer you an exception. It's about Loving Vincent, a film screened in Italy for a few days, three in all, which also saw significant success at the box office, with over 130 spectators, making it the most watched film-event in recent years.
It is a genre of film that enjoys significant attention from a type of audience particularly interested in a very particular declination of cinema. During 2017, 14 were proposed, among which we remember Monet, Hokusai from the British Museum, the ballet of the Royal Opera House, Michelangelo, Julian Shnabel, two concerts by Pearl jam and others. The peculiarity consists precisely in the proposal of a kind of show based on different cinematic fundamental elements, a spectacular grammar of another genre, when often the commercial aspect is not the main source of inspiration. Another important connotation is the technological quality, where the films are projected in the 2K standard, capable of making a very pleasant color rendering. Still very far from the depth of film, but capable of allowing the necessary evolution of cinema towards new perspectives.
In this case, Loving Vincent is a highly evocative audiovisual product. Above all for the construction technique which has seen over 120 painters at work who have created thousands of canvases from which more than 60 frames taken from the original paintings. In this way it was possible to relive all the magic of the great Dutch painter's vivid palette with an absolutely original fluidity and visual impact. The narrative starting point is given by the alleged mystery of his death: was it a suicide or a murder? The last days of Vincent Van Gogh's extraordinary life are relived through a story linked to a letter that the artist sent to his brother Theo before he died.
Each image, each sequence, always seems to have "already seen" because the photographic memory of the countless works, over 800, that the Dutch artist has left behind easily comes back. The animation effect does not disturb at all and indeed allows you to appreciate more carefully details and range of colors that otherwise can easily escape, even when you are in front of an original canvas. Loving Vincent has won important international awards (European Film Awards) and is nominated for a Golden Globe for best animated film. Interestingly, it was funded in part with an innovative fundraising effort via Kickstarter, a collective equity research site. It is not easy to find it still in theaters, while it is very easy to see it in streaming through specialized sites, or even more easily. buy the DVD. Worth the price.
