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Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

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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.

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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 03/23/2020
This biopic might be uneven, but it's thought-provoking nonetheless. Go to Full Review
Kevin Crust Los Angeles Times 01/20/2020
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. Go to Full Review
Leah Pickett Chicago Reader 09/25/2018
Deluc and his three cowriters acknowledge the postcolonial thorniness of the situation, yet they fail to explore it. Go to Full Review
Yasser Medina Cinefilia Mar 23
5/10
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] Go to Full Review
Gisela Savdie El Heraldo 11/08/2020
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] Go to Full Review
Dennis Harvey 48 Hills 10/15/2020
This first journey to Tahiti was not without its own considerable hardships, but during it he created some of his greatest works. Go to Full Review
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04/21/2019 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. See more 12/16/2018 Contemplative movie, very slow at times, portraits a passionated but borderline crazy Gaugin on a very specific episode of his life See more 11/14/2018 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. See more 08/18/2018 Leave Tahiti alone. See more 07/25/2018 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. See more 07/21/2018 Terrible So bad it's hard not to get up and leave Very very bad See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis 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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