The brand new painted animation feature film about the life and mysterious death of Vincent Van Gogh, Loving Vincent, promises ravishing visuals in a fresh, atypical format: each frame is a painting. Live action footage is filmed and then projected onto canvas and painted over in oils in the style of Van Gogh.
 

“Loving Vincent is an investigation delving into the life and controversial death of Vincent Van Gogh, one of the world's most beloved painters, as told through his paintings and by the characters that inhabit them.” Created from an astonishing 720 oil paintings per minute, the movie features over 120 of Vincent Van Gogh's greatest masterpieces re-painted by 100 artists fluent in the brushstroke-rich style of the Dutch master. The plot itself is drawn from the 800 letters written by the painter.

Billed as “the first fully painted feature film in the world”, the movie - produced by Hugh Welchman’s Oscar-winning company Breakthru Films - stars Douglas Booth (The Riot Club), Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones), Chris O’Dowd (Calvary), Saoirse Ronan (The Grand Budapest Hotel), John Sessions (The Iron Lady), Eleanor Tomlinson (Poldark), and Aidan Turner (The Hobbit). Written and directed by Hugh Welchman and Dorota Kobiela, according to IMDb the film should be released sometime this year.



“The truth is, we cannot speak other than by our paintings” wrote Van Gogh in his last letter to his brother Theo, on July 23, 1890, while residing in Auvers-sur-Oise. Over a century later his words sound truer than ever.