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Lust for Life (1956)

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Reviews Counted: 7 Fresh: 7  Rotten:0 Average Rating: 8/10

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Runtime: 2 hrs 3 mins

Synopsis: Biography about artist Vincent Van Gogh, and how his zeal for life and knowledge affected his artwork, and led to his insanity. Biography about artist Vincent Van Gogh, and how his zeal for life and knowledge affected his artwork, and led to his insanity. [More]

Genre: Dramas

Starring: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn, James Donald, Pamela Brown, Everett Sloane

Director: Vincente Minnelli
Producer: John Houseman
Screenwriter: Norman Corwin
Composer: Miklos Rozsa

DVD Info

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Jul 1, 2008

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  • Lust For Life
  • Vibrant orange sunflowers. Rippling yelow grain. Trees bursting with white bloom. "The pictures come to me as in a dream," Vincent Van Gogh said. A dream that too often turned to life-shattering nightmare.
  • Winner of Golden Globe and New York Film Critics Best Actor Awards, Kirk Douglas gives a fierce portrayal as the artist torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark desperation of his tormented mind. The obsessed Van Gogh painted the way other men breathe, driving away family and friends, including artist Paul Gauguin (1956 Best Supporting Actor Academy Award winner Anthony Quinn). Directed by Vincente Minnelli and saturated with the hues of Van Gogh's sea, field and sky, Lust for Life captures the ecstasy of art. And the agony of one man's life.
  • Source: Warner Home Video

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    Minnelli's most visually evocative and most personal film--the only project he initiated during his tenure at MGM--centers on Van Gogh as a tormented, uncompromising artist, magnificently played by Kirk Douglas.

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    The movie, attractive as it may be, never 'breaks through the iron wall' between what is felt and what is expressed, the very wall that van Gogh himself strove to overcome.

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