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It doesn’t necessarily take an artist to tell a story about art. But it can’t hurt, can it? Especially when painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel — his works hang in many of the world’s most prestigious museums, though he’s turned increasingly to writing and directing in recent years — still makes movies, in many ways, like he’s holding a brush.

At Eternitys Gate (2018) - MovieWeb

That sensibility was always there in acclaimed previous outings like Basquiat, Before Night Falls, and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. In At Eternity’s Gate, his take on the brief, troubled life of Vincent van Gogh is abstract, meditative, dreamily surreal: much less a traditional biopic than an evocative series of scenes and images rooted in Willem Dafoe’s fevered, close-to-the-bone performance.

Decades before his paintings became the stuff of traveling retrospectives and desk calendars, the Dutch-born post-Impressionist wa At Eternity's Gate (2018) - IMDb KYQI