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Lust for Life (1956)
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Many of the locations used for filming were the actual places Vincent Van Gogh visited during his life.
PLOT SUMMARY: Vincent Van Gogh is the archetypical tortured artistic genius. His obsession with painting, combined with mental illness, propels him through an unhappy life full of failures and unrewarding relationships. He fails at being a preacher to coal miners. He fails in his relationships with women. He earns some respect among his fellow painters, especially Paul Gauguin, but he does not get along with them. He only manages to sell one painting in his lifetime. The one constant good in his life is his brother Theo, who is...
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The Agony Of One Man's Life.
VINCENT VAN GOGH painted the way other men breathe.
KIRK DOUGLAS puts in a dynamite performance as the archetypical tortured artist-genius.
After REMBRANDT, VAN GOGH is considered to be the greatest of all the Dutch painters. His obsession with painting, combined with serious mental illness,...
(complete Lust for Life review by CowboyJunkie)
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