Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

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Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

Released Jul 11, 2018

1h 42m

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In 1891 Gauguin settles down in Tahiti, where he hopes to find inspiration for his work as an artist and live as a free man in the wild, far from all the moral, political and aesthetic codes of civilized Europe. In the jungle, he faces loneliness, poverty and disease, and he meets Tehura. She eventually becomes his wife and the main subject of his greatest paintings.

Critics Consensus

Gaugin: Voyage to Tahiti is beautifully filmed biopic that benefits from a well-chosen lead, but neither are enough to counter the story's surface treatment and narrative drift.

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Bilge Ebiri

Spirituality & Health

This biopic might be uneven, but it's thought-provoking nonetheless.

Mar 23, 2020

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Kevin Crust

Los Angeles Times

The film is too brief to be revelatory and is not the virtual museum experience it appears to aspire to, but does serve as a strong introduction to the artist for the uninitiated and offers a deeper dive into Gauguin's portraiture.

Jan 20, 2020

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Leah Pickett

Chicago Reader

Deluc and his three cowriters acknowledge the postcolonial thorniness of the situation, yet they fail to explore it.

Sep 25, 2018

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Yasser Medina

Cinefilia

It offers some landscape shots with a tropical exoticism, but overall, I get the feeling that the surface of the misunderstood artist is barely painted and there is almost no space on the canvas to get to know him. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 5/10

Mar 23, 2025

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Gisela Savdie

El Heraldo

The film does not delve into the social and political aspect of the moment, leaving it in the hands of the viewer [Full Review in Spanish]

Nov 8, 2020

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

This first journey to Tahiti was not without its own considerable hardships, but during it he created some of his greatest works.

Oct 15, 2020

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I don't care about the actors ability when the movie is so tedious and untrue. He had many YOUNG wives and they all left him. They were young teenagers with whom he had children. Really boring -- couldn't finish it in spite of only IMHO mediocre scenery.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Audience Member

Contemplative movie, very slow at times, portraits a passionated but borderline crazy Gaugin on a very specific episode of his life

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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The very methodical pacing and depressive tone of this film made it a rather difficult watch for me. Vincent Cassel gives a strong performance as the acclaimed artist Paul Gauguin, who is struggling to make a living selling his artwork in Paris, and decides to leave his family and journey to the island of Tahiti to find inspiration. It's there that he meets and begins to live with the young Tahitian beauty Tehura (Tuhei Adams), who begins to pose for Gauguin's paintings and sketches. Despite this being her first acting role, I thought Adams did quite well in it and was believable in her part and range of emotions. However, Gauguin will eventually find himself impoverished, in failing health, and becoming increasingly selfish and possessive of Tehura, as the idyllic life he envisioned slips away. Overall, I thought this film, directed by Edouard Deluc, had very lush atmospherics and fine acting, at times, but overall it just became too much of a slog for me. Thus, only a fair rating.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/25/23

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Leave Tahiti alone.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

08/18/18

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The film may have lacked a clear momentum, but instead floats along as if it were a post-impressionist work. That is likely its greatest critique and one of its more subtle strengths.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

02/20/23

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Audience Member

Terrible So bad it's hard not to get up and leave Very very bad

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

02/07/23

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In 1891 Gauguin settles down in Tahiti, where he hopes to find inspiration for his work as an artist and live as a free man in the wild, far from all the moral, political and aesthetic codes of civilized Europe. In the jungle, he faces loneliness, poverty and disease, and he meets Tehura. She eventually becomes his wife and the main subject of his greatest paintings.

Director: Edouard Deluc
Producer: Bruno Lévy
Screenwriter: Edouard Deluc, Etienne Comar, Thomas Lilti, Sarah Kaminsky
Distributor: Cohen Media Group
Production Co: Move Movie, 120 Films, NJJ Capital, StudioCanal
Genre: Biography, History, Drama, Romance
Original Language: French (France)
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 11, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 6, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $200.2K
Runtime: 1h 42m
Sound Mix: Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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