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Lust for Life (1956)

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  • 2hr 2m
  • 68

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Movie Info & Cast

Director:

Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor

Producer:

John Houseman

Writer:

Norman Corwin, Irving Stone

Release Date:

Sep 17, 1956

Runtime:

2hr 2m

Synopsis

The life of brilliant but tortured artist Vincent van Gogh.

Cast

  • Kirk Douglas
  • Anthony Quinn
  • James Donald
  • Pamela Brown
  • Everett Sloane
  • Niall MacGinnis
  • Noel Purcell
  • Henry Daniell
  • Madge Kennedy
  • Jill Bennett

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58

Minnelli and star Kirk Douglas give Vincent Van Gogh's famously tortured existence the melodramatic treatment in 1956's Lust For Life, and the result falls closer to high camp than high art.

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Metacritic review by Nathan Rabin
Nathan Rabin
The A.V. Club
75

Lust for Life features exhilarating scenes of Van Gogh at work, often set in the locations of some of his most famous paintings and punctuated with close-ups of the original artwork. Like the 2017 animated experiment Loving Vincent, the movie functions not only as a biopic, but as an exercise in aesthetic reinterpretation.

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Josh Larsen
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