As the world’s first fully painted animated feature film, there’s a lot riding on the release of Loving Vincent, hitting movie theatres across the UK and Ireland this October. Starring the likes of Douglas Booth, Jerome Flynn, Robert Gulaczyk, Helen McCrory, Chris O’Dowd, Saoirse Ronan, John Sessions, Eleanor Tomlinson and Aidan Turner, the film will explore the life and death of Vincent Van Gogh, as told by his paintings and the characters inhabiting them. Check out the official teaser trailer for the flick below:
Starting a year after Van Gogh’s death, Loving Vincent tells a portrait of the artist like no other, with interviews conducted by Armand Roulin (Booth) who quickly becomes obsessed with the man for whom he had modelled so many times.
Taking a bullet to the stomach, the film will explore whether or not this was a suicide, accident or something altogether more sinister.
Every single one of the 65,000 frames in the movie are an oil-painting, hand-painted by 125 professionals who worked with a live action film, first shot by actors and then hand-painted over. The final effect is the interaction of both the live performance and the paintings, as the characters are brought into a medium like no other.
Loving Vincent hits UK and Irish cinemas on October 13, 2017.