Polish artist Dorota Kobiela working as an animator and dreamed of combining a passion for drawing and a love to cinema and starting from the correspondence of Van Gogh, who studied diligently at the university, raised funds for Kickstarter and shot a short film about the last days of a famous Dutch artist.

The project fell into the field of view of British producer Hugh Welshman and intrigued by the unique technique of the artist, he proposes to turn a short film into a full meter. Gathering like-minded people and using the extensive connections of the British in the actors' circles, the project "Van Gogh: With Love, Vincent" (Loving Vincent), which takes more than 5 million euros, almost 7 years and more than 60,000 canvases.

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A year after the death of the painter Vincent Van Gogh, the French postmaster Ruhlen (Chris O'Dowd), who became a good friend to the artist, finds Vincent's unsent letter to his brother Theo. The postmaster, who was a good friend to the artist, can not leave the letter dusty and asks his son Arman (Douglas Booth) to transfer the letter to the addressee.

Arman begins the search and finds out that the younger Van Gogh died a few months after Vincent, and his widow left France. After hearing a few stories about the life of the artist, Arman decides at all costs to return a letter to a woman and goes to the town of Auvergne-sur-Oise, where Vincent lived his last days, and in conversations with local residents builds a chronology of events because of which the artist committed suicide.

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In terms of plot and drama, "With Love, Vincent" is a classic old-fashioned detective story in which the protagonist, not Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple, talking to people, as if puzzling adds a picture that should clarify the circumstances of the artist's death. And with each new conversation, as well as most of today's biographers "father of modern art," can not accept his suicide, written off for another attack of mental illness. Black and white flash inserts emphasize the tragedy of the situation and the artist's inner conflict, but at the same time demonstrate his love for life and the iron logic of judgments so that the final chord leaves a curious aftertaste, and the conclusions have to be made independently.

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To rate this film as an ordinary movie is devilishly difficult, as its creators conducted a titanic work - four years to organize and prepare, two years to film, a storyboard and the devil knows how much to carefully draw each frame.

Subjective rating 10 of 10

Just a visual orgasm

p.s. Sorry for possible errors - English is not my native language