Movie: Loving Vincent

Just got back from a fabulous movie.  Remember "A Scanner Darkly," where they painted over every single frame of a movie so it looks animated, but still very real?  "Loving Vincent" did the same thing, with a staff of over 100 painters painstakingly recreating Vincent Van Gogh's backgrounds while live actors perform (and are painted over).  It's immensely visual, extremely well done, and the story was good too.  It takes place a year after Van Gogh died, an apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot to the stomach.

But the main character isn't so sure.  Nobody shoots themselves in the stomach to commit suicide.  It's intensely painful and it took two days to kill him.

So this guy starts poking around in the village where Vincent spent his last few months, and start uncovering mystery after mystery.

All told in the glorious vibrant brushstrokes of Van Gogh.

Plus the music was REALLy good -- with a character playing piano which drifts in & out of the symphonic score.

And the sound design was incredible -- crows caw, dogs bark offscreen and these sounds come from the back of the theater and sound like they're not part of the movie ... until the critters run or fly into frame.

I'm not easily impressed. but I was flabbergasted.