The Wolf at the Door (1986) Oviri
The Wolf at the Door (1986)
DVDRip | MKV | 720x460 | x264 @ 3576 Kbps | 96 min | 2,55 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | MKV | 720x460 | x264 @ 3576 Kbps | 96 min | 2,55 Gb
Audio: English AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English (embedded in MKV)
Genre: Drama
Director: Henning Carlsen
Writers: Henning Carlsen (scenario), Jean-Claude Carrière (scenario)
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jean Yanne
In 1893, Paul Gauguin arrived back in France from Tahiti with 66 canvases and 4 francs in his pocket. He was confident enough to suppose that his new paintings would take the art world by storm and transform his career. He held an exhibition at the Durand-Ruell Gallery in Paris. It was a fiasco, received with contempt, which succeeded only in plunging him in debt. For the next 18 months, he tried desperately to accumulate enough money to escape once again from the narrow-mindedness and northern chill of Europe, this time for good. OVIRI tells the story of this period in Gauguin's life and of the four women with whom he was involved.
I saw this years ago but I remember it being a charming movie, notable for Sutherland's characterization of Gauguin (with makeup and lighting, the resemblance is remarkable) and of the depiction of the delicate relationship between him and the house-girl.
The title I saw it under, "A Wolf at the Door", refers to a fable related by Gauguin in the movie, which greatly illumines Gauguin's attitude, his life and the movie. Sutherland's reading of that fable is chilling.
I would place it with the other depictions of French artists by American movies e.g.: Moulin Rouge, Lust for Life, etc. It's less flashy than those and more realistic.
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The Wolf at the Door (1986) Oviri
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