5/29/2023 0 Comments Lust for life irving stone review![]() ![]() ![]() While the actor’s dedication saw him learn to paint under the supervision of a French artist, what really sells the performance is Douglas’ sensitivity and commitment to the extremes of the artist’s emotions. Minnelli is helped hugely in this respect by Kirk Douglas’ towering performance. Taking some nine years to reach the screen after it was first optioned by MGM, Minnelli’s adaptation of Irving Stone’s hugely popular “fictionalised biography” pulls off the nifty trick of being both an essay of a tragic life and a celebration of wayward genius. ![]() Although perhaps best known for his grandiloquent musicals such as An American In Paris, Gigi and The Band Wagon, the majority of Vincente Minnelli’s films were straight dramas and this exquisitely rendered biopic of Van Gogh’s life is amongst his finest. ![]()
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