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#LovingVincent painting animators working on the 65,000 frames that make up the film.
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Postman Roulin and Armand Roulin in Loving Vincent
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The #LovingVincent exhibition is now open
Loving Vincent painting animators Polina Mavrikaki, Nikos Koniaris and Alexandra Bari created a large scale reproduction of Van Gogh's Wheatfield with Crows at the Animasyros festival, where the film also won the audience award!
Meet the characters of Loving Vincent in US theatres now
Meet Armand Roulin, the reluctant detective hero of our #LovingVincent story.
Loving Vincent opens in the US today, beginning with a run in New York! Find a local theatre and book tickets at http://gwi.io/LovingVincentTBLR
Inside the #LovingVincent studio in Gdansk, Poland
The #LovingVincent UK Premiere will be broadcast to cinemas nationwide live from the National Gallery on 9th October: www.lovingvincent.film
“It’s sometimes so difficult for me to imagine the painting of the future as anything other than a new series of powerful portraitists, simple and comprehensible to the whole of the general public.”
Vincent van Gogh in a letter to Emile Bernard, Arles, November 1888
Gendarme Rigaumon
In Loving Vincent, all of the characters we meet are based on portraits Vincent van Gogh painted. One person our hero Armand Roulin meets on his voyage to deliver a letter Vincent wrote is Gendarme Rigaumon, a local policeman in Auvers-sur-Oise.
Gendarme Rigaumon’s character is based on Vincent’s painting Portrait of a One-Eyed Man which can be seen on display at the Van Gogh Museum.
Portrait of a One-Eyed Man and our keyframe painting.
Vincent painted this portrait whilst he was at the Saint-Rémy hospital in 1889;
At the moment I’m working on a portrait of one of the patients here. It’s strange that when one is with them for some time and is used to them, one no longer thinks about their being mad.
Vincent in a letter to his brother Theo, 21 October 1889.
In Loving Vincent, Armand gets into a fight which lands him in custody of the Gendarme, who gives him a new lead in his quest to find out the truth about the mysterious circumstances of Vincent’s death....
"They’re immense stretches of wheatfields under turbulent skies, and I made a point of trying to express sadness, extreme loneliness." Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo just weeks before his death.
Lieutenant Milliet
Lieutenant Milliet became Vincent’s friend during his time in Arles in France. Paul Milliet was a Second lieutenant in the Zouave regiment. A career soldier who had an interest in art, Vincent gave him drawing lessons and painted him just once in September 1888. Vincent hung the painting in his bedroom at The Yellow House, and it can be spotted in his first version of Bedroom in Arles.
Vincent’s painting (on display at the Kröller-Müller Museum) and our keyframe painting.
Vincent subtitled his portrait of Milliet ’The Lover’, in reference to Milliet’s prodigious appetite for the women of Arles, as Vincent was jealous of his young friend’s success with the local ladies.
“Milliet’s lucky, he has all the Arlésiennes he wants, but there you are, he can’t paint them, and if he was a painter he wouldn’t have any” Vincent van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo in September 1888
We decided to bring out Milliet’s arrogant side in his character in Loving Vincent, as he famously relayed years later, after Vincent was already famous, that it was he who had given Vincent tips on how to improve his work. When Milliet left Arles to return to Algeria he still kept in touch with Vincent via letters.
In our live action filming, Milliet was played by Robin Hodges - go behind the scenes of the shoot in the video below to find out more about his transformation into the lieutenant:
Our Official Theatrical trailer for #LovingVincent