MFAH Film New Releases: Loving Vincent

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston presents another in its New Releases series. Enjoy these critically acclaimed, award-winning international films as they make their Houston debut!

Loving Vincent

Directed by Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman
Released  2017
Country  UK/Poland
Running Time  94 minutes

One of the most visually acclaimed films of the year, Loving Vincent is the world’s first fully oil-painted feature film. It details the complicated life and controversial death of Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890).

More than six years in the making with the help of 125 artists, this brilliant animated feature is composed of 65,000 painted frames. Drawn from meticulous research and inspired by Van Gogh’s paintings, subjects, and correspondence, the film’s story begins a year after the artist’s death, when the postmaster’s son, Armand Roulin (Douglas Booth), is tasked with delivering the artist’s last letter. Trying to understand what happened, Roulin ends up interviewing those who knew Van Gogh in the artist’s troubled last days.

Among the other actors in the cast are Chris O’Dowd, Saoirse Ronan, and Aidan Turner.

► Watch how painters designed the film.

► ​Read more about the making of “Loving Vincent.”