LOVING VINCENT (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Douglas Booth (The Limehouse Golem), Jerome Flynn (Best), Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn), Helen McCrory (The Queen), Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids), John Sessions (The Iron Lady), Eleanor Tomlinson (Jack the Giant Slayer), Aidan Turner (The Hobbit), Robert Gulaczyk (Prosta Historia O Morderstwie)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Hugh Welchman (film debut), director, writer, producer; Dorota Kobiela (The Flying Machine), director, writer, editor; Jacek Dehnel (film debut), writer; Sean M. Bobbitt (film debut) and Ivan Mactaggart (My Week With Marilyn), producers; Clint Mansell (Requiem for a Dream), composer; Tristan Oliver (ParaNorman) and Lukasz Zal (Ida), cinematographers; Justyna Wierszynska (film debut), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

The film explores the life and tragic death of famed painter Vincent Van Gogh (Gulaczyk), told through his paintings and the characters that occupy them. It includes “interviews” with those closest to Van Gogh, and dramatic representations of events leading up to his death…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Loving Vincent is the world’s first animated film that has been fully painted, and done so in the style of its subject matter Vincent Van Gogh, which not only looks astonishing but should be an absolute must-see for any lovers of the late painter’s works.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 13TH OCTOBER 2017

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