Rent Gauguin (2017)
2.9 of 5 from 89 ratings
1h 37min
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- Synopsis:
- 1891. Painter Paul Gauguin (Vincent Cassel) is already well-known in Parisian artistic circles, but is tired of the so-called civilised world and its political, moral and artistic conventions. Leaving his wife and children behind, he ventures alone to the other end of the world, Tahiti. Consumed by a yearning for original purity and ready to sacrifice everything for his quest. Impoverished and solitary, Gauguin pushes deep into the Tahitian jungle, where he meets the Maoris and Tehura (Tuheï Adams), his muse, who would go on to inspire his most iconic works of art.
- Actors:
- Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi, Pua-Taï Hikutini, Pernille Bergendorff, Marc Barbé, Paul Jeanson, Cédric Eeckhout, Samuel Jouy, Scali Delpeyrat, Ian McCamy
- Directors:
- Edouard Deluc
- Producers:
- Bruno Levy
- Writers:
- Edouard Deluc, Etienne Comar, Thomas Lilti, Sarah Kaminsky, Paul Gauguin
- Aka:
- Gauguin - Voyage de Tahiti
- Studio:
- StudioCanal
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance
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- Countries:
- France
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Reviews (3) of Gauguin
Took my eye off the ball! - Gauguin review by CP Customer
It,s in French!!! OkK. I know that it has subtitles but there you are. English would have been better.
The review needs 100 words so I'm filling the space up with a whole load of meaningless single letters - here goes -
1 out of 3 members found this review helpful.
Very well-produced film. - Gauguin review by Taddy Lady
Gauguin is a very interesting film and examines the character in-depth so that you feel a great empathy for him. It is well acted and left me wanting to find out more about this rather sad man's life.
1 out of 1 members found this review helpful.
Morose would-be-biopic - Gauguin review by Alphaville
Dirty, smelly, impoverished Gaugin leaves his pigsty of a Paris flat, dumps his wife and 5 children and goes to Tahiti for 2 years. There he marries a local woman but remains dirty, smelly and impoverished. Sometimes he paints a bit, but we see little of what he’s painting. After 2 years he dumps his Tahitian wife and returns to Paris. The end. Only over the end-titles do we discover that he returned to Tahiti later and painted the art for which he became famous. That’s what they should have filmed. The two years we’re shown are repetitive and boring. Vincent Cassel does his best with the part. but it’s a character you’d cross the road to avoid, there’s no plot, no artwork, a downbeat score and it ends where it began with nothing having changed. What a waste.
0 out of 0 members found this review helpful.