Comments on: #905. Van Gogh (1991, Maurice Pialat)

By: Health_Campus

Health_Campus — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:12:06 +0000

What I can say is very nice and helpful as well as informative post…really help me very much more!! Thanks..
Cheers,

By: ghu

ghu — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 21:11:57 +0000

good . tnx

By: M. Granda

M. Granda — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 21:42:20 +0000

The thing I really appraise in Pialat’s films is how he develop the concept of the inner hurt inside every scene like searching something intangible, this concept destroy the fiction and it give to the film an interesting concept of thruth. In a moment of Van Gogh, Margerite is sitting in the bordel with the lady in red, there is a cut, now we see Marguerite kissing the lady. In this cut appears the Pialat’s hand. The hand, this concept of metteur en scene that link Pialat with Renoir…

By: jules petroz

jules petroz — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 11:42:09 +0000

Vincent van Gogh self portrait found at Geneva flea market by Jules Petroz
watch the video on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqQDtEizSt0

By: am

am — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 17:56:58 +0000

I would like to alert everyone to an incredible film I saw called The Eyes of Van Gogh directed by Alexander Barnett.

You can find details at http://www.theeyesofvangogh.com or look for the title at www. IMDb.com, which is a film database.

By: Shooting Down Pictures » Blog Archive » The production of the world

Shooting Down Pictures » Blog Archive » The production of the world — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:34:29 +0000

[...] The production of the world For my final musings on Maurice Pialat’s Van Gogh, I want to mention a wonderful essay on Van Gogh by art critic John Berger in his book The Sense of Sight. I think the following paragraphs do as much to describe Pialat as Van Gogh, and I hope to illustrate as much through the embedded clip (note spoilers — though I’m sure that most of you may know that Vincent Van Gogh is dead): For an animal its natural environment and habitat are given; for a man – despite his faith of the empiricists – reality is not a given: it has to be continually sought out, held – I am tempted to say salvaged. We are taught to oppose the real to the imaginary, as though one were always at hand and the other distant, far away. And this opposition is false. Events are always to hand. But the coherence of these events – which is what we mean by reality – is an imaginative construction. Reality always lies beyond, and this is as true for materialists as for idealists, for Plato and for Marx. Reality, however one interprets it, lies beyond a screen of cliches. Every culture produces such a screen, partly to facilitate its own practices (to establish habits) and partly to consolidate its own power. Reality is inimical to those with power. [...]

By: Shooting Down Pictures » Blog Archive » ‘In a short time, the gentlest of men has become irritable and bitter’

Sun, 04 Feb 2007 22:32:34 +0000

[...] ‘In a short time, the gentlest of men has become irritable and bitter’ Moving through the second third of the Van Gogh, I focus on this, which is an example of the rumbling, contentious rhythm of Pialat’s single-take dialogue scenes I had mentioned in my previous analysis. And the rippling water is the perfect visual as the inner turbulence of both characters comes to the surface. I consider this the film’s emotional turning point. Up to this point Van Gogh has seemed normal if a bit eccentric and nothing suggesting suicidal. Now we see what sets him off, and the line readings feel internal, neutral until action comes out of nowhere. Nothing is the same afterwards, even though the others laugh it off as just another eccentric artist episode in life’s amusing cavalcade. [...]

By: Shooting Down Pictures » Blog Archive » ‘Life isn’t so bad. There’s even room for the village idiot.’

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 06:47:44 +0000

[...] ‘Life isn’t so bad. There’s even room for the village idiot.’ Of the films for the TSPDT project that I’ve seen this month, Maurice Pialat’s Van Gogh is the one that has inspired me to take a closer look. I reviewed the first third of this 159 minute film and found much to take note of, many stills to capture… but I don’t want to go overboard with musings and observations. I’ve decided to focus on one sequence in depth as a way of making specific remarks that hopefully open into wider observations. [...]