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Title: A distorted and pointless Van Gogh biography
Review: This film--which could have been quite good because of its narrow focus on the last two months of Van Gogh's life--is, in the end, a disaster. The film is grossly inaccurate in its portrayals of Vincent, his brother Theo, Dr. Paul Gachet and Gachet's daughter, Marguerite. Director Maurice Pialat seems to have thrown virtually every known fact about Van Gogh out the window and has rewritten history according his own distorted (and actually extremely boring) vision.A far better movie would be Robert Altman's "Vincent and Theo" starring Tim Roth. Pialat's film, unfortunately, is a mess.
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