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Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

Gauguin: Voyage de Tahiti

2017

Edouard Deluc

Vincent Cassel, Malik Zidi, Tuheï Adams, Pua-Taï Hikutini ...

5.4

605

Drama Year 1891. Gauguin has exiled himself to Tahiti. He wants to rediscover his painting, as a free, wild man, far from the moral, political, and aesthetic codes of civilized Europe. He goes ever deeping into the jungle, coping with solitude, poverty, and sickness. Here he'll encounter Tehura, who will become his wife, and the subject of his greatest paintings.

	Media	Author	Review
		Ben Kenigsberg The New York Times	"In the end, the movie reveals very little about an artist’s nature — and a lot about craven commercial calculation."
		Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"The strikingly shot feature, a veritable shallow-focus feast, tries to explore a vast array of topics, including but certainly not limited to nature, colonialism, religion, sexuality and art."
		Pat Brown Slant	"[It] offers little insight into the relationship between his work and his life (...) [A] monotonously bleak film (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Simon Abrams Village Voice	"Cassel’s intimidating body language (...) often makes Deluc and his collaborators’ version of Gauguin seem real enough"
		Ed Potton The Times	"Cassel is superficially convincing as the sickly painter. Yet his portrayal is rather one-note, as is the film, a limp series of disappointments and tiffs and the occasional bit of painting (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		David Parkinson Radio Times	"Visually striking it may be, but this is also flagrantly flawed (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"

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