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Show Vlonday, January 9, 19S3 Chronicle Page Thirteen Vincent' guides viewer on a met leu Ions journey -- Director uses jy Bel-A- blending of natural scenes," Van Gogh's works non-sto- p Jean de Montreux mi not anticipate the vision of the metallic blue or pathetic life, his loves and his modest expectations. e amber The entire movie is narrated by John Hurt, whose pale orange of Van Gogh's skies, the the fed with maiden white of his clouds or sulfuric yel- dramatic vocal power is so well embroidered with each low and somber purple of his suns and landscapes scene that the sensation of sharing in Van Gogh's art and tragedy is nearly total. spread expansively on virgin canvases. While your expectations may not literally be met, - Director Cox used letters and noteswritten by Van you will nonetheless be pleasantly surprised by Gogh to his brother Theo from 1872 until his death to Australian director and producer Paul Cox's superb tell the entire story. The words and poetry of Van Gogh Do Chronicle staff writer earth-ton- Vincent: The life and death of Vincent Van Gogh A Roxy Release Written, directed and produced by Paul Cox Narrated by John Hurt . I Vincent is different. It is not a skillfully dramatized nirtnro roinfnrro1 HirfTrarViir,al mnti'nn Tr5tVi Vito anrJ pieces of Hollywood fiction. filmmaking abilities. Cox smartly figured out that no living actor or any known technology would have been capable of correctly interpreting Van Gogh's life and work. After all, Vincent is not of the genre of films made about the Strauss brothers, Beethoven or Mozart who left countless parchments of their compositions that a talented orchestra could interpret. . Van Gogh left paintings (some 1,800 paintings), colors and images that tell of a time and of places that Cox chose not to distort by his ingenious product, tells the viewer that optical illusions and stunts would have spoiled the essence of the entire show. The movie opens in the 1800s on a European pastoral landscape that stretches to infinity. Such scenes continue to expose their magical colors on the screen only to intertwine with Van Gogh's tableau of the very same place. This non-sto- p blending of natural scenes and Van Gogh's famous works is sometimes, however briefly, replaced with dramatic frames of the artist's make one wonder whether the Dutch artist was not as good a romantic impressionist as an impressionist artist The film is not solely artistic, it is a skillful sociological study of Europe's classes during Van Gogh's time. subscribers. Vincent is certainly not for Rambo-styl- e It invites appreciation of the arts. Its masterful cinematography and eloquence guide the viewer through a meticulous journey inside the trying but creative soul of Vincent Van Gogh. Vincent is showing at Cinema in Your Face. over-dramatizati- i f - J 2 rMi -- x Cox,-throug- - . 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