Lust for Life
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Movie Reviews of Lust for Life
Movie Review: Nonplussed for Life
Summary: 3 Stars
People jumping around like monkeys. Tall dignified monkeys, or lowly grimy monkeys, but monkeys none the less. Melodramatic, affected monkeys bopping around papery, evenly lit sets, with occasional exterior establishing shots. Stage acting? Silent film acting? Who cares. The activity of a scene ends and suddenly the lighting jumps 3 shades brighter, because they have inserted another film layer for a slowly cross-fading transition to the next scene. Yes, its one of those.
Its unfair to judge this movie by today's standards, and unfair to this review not to.
--Did Van Gogh cut off his own ear?
--Did he mail it to anyone?
--Was it all over a man or a woman?
Anyway, after the "accident" I found the decision to simply shoot Douglas from his right for the rest of the picture rather than create some kind of make-up special effect for his ear, a rather tasteful one.
If you are curious about Van Gogh, but not curious enough to read "Lust for Life" then watch it.
Movie Review: while he was alive he sold one painting for 400 franks
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie is the 4th movie about a 20th century great artist that
I have seen.
In all of them there was some claim for their insanity:
Picasso, Pollack, Klee, and van Gogh.
The film makers and biographers have no mercy on the dead.
Three of these were relatively successful while they were alive
and the last wasn't.
What is clear in all these cases is that these artists
were not restricted by convention in the way they painted or saw the world.
The best most believable part of this movie was the love
of van Gogh's brother for him, the paintings showed and his efforts to try to find a
place in the world.
I've read in a news article that the pathology of van Gogh's brain disorder
caused his strange and wonderful use of color...
This movie was probably good for the selling price of the canvas
in investors hands, but I really think that van Gogh
deserved more while he was alive.
Movie Review: Great film, disappointing DVD
Summary: 3 Stars
Warner Home video offers a good colorful transfer of LUST FOR LIFE, one of Vincente Minnelli's and Kirk Douglas' best films. However, the print used for transfer should have been restored. Even more disturbing is the lack of DVD extras. Other than a very good, though dry,commentary track and a trailer, there are no extras for this important film. Not even the "making of" featurette prepared at time of the film's release. Very surprising considering the care that Warner HV normally puts into its releases. The moive is a must, however this DVD presentation disappoints. Certainly worth a rental or purchased at a "used" price. Perhaps one day WHV will revist with a truly special edition.Movie Review: 3 stars out of 4
Summary: 3 Stars
The Bottom Line:
Lust for Life is really rather slow, but if you're into Van Gogh or art you'll probably be pleased with this nuanced biopic that occasionally hits the wrong note (or, in the case of Miklos Rozsa's thudding score, the wrong note over and over again) but leaves the viewer with a fairly good idea of the man's life.
Movie Review: Lust for Life, Indeed!
Summary: 1 Stars
Douglas as Van Gogh was a reincarnation of the artist himself. Van Gogh was an eccentric and tormented soul. Douglas manifested all the elements needed to descibe and fullfill the artist's message. Like all the great artists, Modiliani, Gauguin and Van Gogh were haunted by the demons of their past, which inevitably lead to their self destruction. An excellent film to all, not just art historians.