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At Eternity's Gate

Why would God give me a gift to paint ugly and disturbing things?

Priest:

I don't want to hurt your feelings, but don't you see that this painting is, how can I say, unpleasant? Ugly? Vincent Van Gogh:
Why would God give me a gift to paint ugly and disturbing things?

Full Transcript

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I don't want to hurt your feelings
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but don't you see that this painting is
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How can I say
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Unpleasant
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It's ugly
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Why would God give me a gift
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to paint ugly and disturbing things
Duration
21 seconds
Views
924
Timestamp in Movie
01:20:31
Uploaded
Nov 23, 2022
Genres
drama
Production
Iconoclast,Rahway Road Productions,Riverstone Pictures,SPK Pictures,RocketScience

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Movie Summary

Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.

Actors

Mads Mikkelsen
Priest
Mads Mikkelsen
Willem Dafoe
Vincent Van Gogh
Willem Dafoe
So you believe that God gave you this gift - At Eternity's Gate 00:13
So you believe that God gave you this gift
I think of myself as an exile - At Eternity's Gate 00:15
I think of myself as an exile
I'm free to go - At Eternity's Gate 00:16
I'm free to go
If I couldn't paint - At Eternity's Gate 00:06
If I couldn't paint
Why do you paint - At Eternity's Gate 00:52
Why do you paint
An artist - At Eternity's Gate 00:24
An artist
Maybe what you are saying is that your gift to the world is painting - At Eternity's Gate 00:12
Maybe what you are saying is that your gift to the world is...
Your gift to the world is painting - At Eternity's Gate 00:16
Your gift to the world is painting
There's a lot of destruction and failure at the door of a successful picture - At Eternity's Gate 00:32
There's a lot of destruction and failure at the door of...
Sometimes they say I'm mad - At Eternity's Gate 00:09
Sometimes they say I'm mad
Will you receive your son - At Eternity's Gate 00:05
Will you receive your son
Maybe God made me a painter for people who aren't born yet - At Eternity's Gate 00:27
Maybe God made me a painter for people who aren't born...
I can make people feel what it's like to be alive - At Eternity's Gate 00:17
I can make people feel what it's like to be alive
But these flowers will wither and fade - At Eternity's Gate 00:29
But these flowers will wither and fade
As a matter of fact - At Eternity's Gate 00:31
As a matter of fact
I am my paintings - At Eternity's Gate 00:11
I am my paintings
Because my vision is closer to the reality of the world - At Eternity's Gate 00:28
Because my vision is closer to the reality of the world
I wanted so much to share what I see - At Eternity's Gate 00:25
I wanted so much to share what I see
Seurat confounds painting with science - At Eternity's Gate 00:44
Seurat confounds painting with science
Paintings have to be done in one clear gesture - At Eternity's Gate 01:45
Paintings have to be done in one clear gesture