France,
2017, 102 min
(Alternative: 97 min)
Directed by:
Édouard DelucCinematography:
Pierre CottereauComposer:
Warren EllisCast:
Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi, Marc Barbé, Samuel Jouy, Scali Delpeyrat, Pernille Bergendorff, Pua-Taï Hikutini, Ian McCamy, Michèle Clément (more)Plots(1)
The post-impressionist painter’s first trip to French Polynesia in 1891 is the focus of this lush, semi-fictionalized biographical exploration of art and inspiration. Flush with the idea of new freedoms, Henri Gauguin (a magnetic Vincent Cassel) abandons his family and a drab Paris and sets off for Tahiti. There, he discovers both inspiration and uncertainly in Tehura, a younger islander who consents to his advances when her parents offer her to the artist as a wife. (San Francisco International Film Festival)
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