An artist's vision of a great artist. Schnabel uses the camera as his canvas to compel the audience to see the world as Van Gogh saw it. Unfortunately, it fractured the storytelling and left this viewer bored (I actually fell asleep, uncharacteristically). Even the fine performances (Willem Defoe earned an Oscar nod) could not rescue this movie. People will love it as art or hate it as a waste of time. I give this film a 5 (meh) out of 10. [BioPic]

Dafoe is good and the cinematography is interesting but overall the movie is boring and dull.

It was pretty. It was well made. It was boring. It covered material that's been well covered in the past. I wish I could like it more.

This is a truly beautiful film, with a phenomenal performance by Willem Dafoe, I love the camera work in this film it follows you around constantly moving and it was very unique and something that I loved, although I don't think it would work with any other movie. The directing felt like a sense of art itself, like we were seeing the world through Van Gogh's eyes.

Madman: "Are all painters crazy?"

Vincent Van Gogh: "Only the great ones."

I hate kids, but I love Dafoe and Gogh.

'At Eternity’s Gate' is a flawed movie with questionable editing choices and a disjointed narrative, but I wish more biopics was presented as poetic as this, because this connected with me on a personal level. No words can explain that mysterious feeling.

Willem Dafoe is so good it's jaw dropping. Dafoe lives and breathes as the melancholic painter Vincent Van Gogh. The intensity and humanity is felt, sometimes without words.

The cinematography is impeccable with the use colors stripped from Vincent's paintings. Beautiful, still and often peaceful. The close ups and POV shots mix with hand-held camera would occasionally make me feel unease with a sense of claustrophobia, which I imagine an unstable person would experience.

Not for everyone as I've already seen both sides, yet there's a lot to appreciate and admire. This is pure art, rather than a movie.

Willem Dafoe gives an outstanding performance as the troubled painter, Vincent van Gogh, in this artful and somewhat unconventional biopic.

At Eternity's Gate beautifully captures Van Gogh's internal compulsion to create art that leads to his external plunge into madness. Director Julian Schnabel is able to expertly paints his interpretation of Van Gogh's final years to the screen, using the camera lens as his brush. While not a perfect film, It's worth watching if you are interested in Van Gogh.

Overall, this film is as inspiring as it is sad. Shaky Cam haters beware!

Independent director and painter himself, Julian Schnabel, took a lot of creative risks with At Eternity’s Gate. I think in his own way, Schnabel’s artistic choices in this film are misunderstood, just as Vincent van Gogh was. People criticize the film without realizing that it is told exactly in the style Van Gogh would have experienced. It strays away from the normalities in Hollywood, and showcases its own original techniques in order to properly embody the world through Vincent van Gogh’s eyes.

Not one for me.

I will say that Willem Dafoe is terrific, undoubtedly. His performance in 'At Eternity's Gate' was honestly the only part of this 2018 release that kept my interest piqued. The support cast don't do anything wrong but don't really illuminate the film for me either. It has its heart in the right place, but as a film I didn't enjoy it.

The main thing that bothered me was the camera work all around, just absolutely needless shaky cam that adds zero to what's going on onscreen - it even distracts from the main event, for me at least. It is noted that, away from that, visibly the film does look neat.

I am admittedly not into art ('twas my least favourite subject at school, in fact), though even so I expected more from this. I am happy for Dafoe that this was positively received as his showing merits high praise, but it won't be one I'll be revisiting any time soon personally.

Ok. Some will be drawn to watch this movie because it is about Van Gogh. For those, this film is not entirely reliable, and it is really based on the last moments of the painter's life, it is not a study of his life.

Others may watch the film for its actors. In that sense, just saying that the performances are quite good.

Finally, some people might come to this film knowing that it is an artistic study of mental illness. In that case, you will really enjoy it.

Willem Dafoe is absolutely brilliant in his interpretation of a disturbed Vincent van Gogh. I don't like most of his films because I feel him very theatrically but in this one I really connected with his performance. Something I cannot say about Oscar Isaac's, he is not bad but I didn't believe his Gaugin. I cannot tell why.

The editing is good in his juxtaposition of sounds and dialogues at some moments, I am glad the director didn't use too much of this. But the brilliant thing here is the cinematography which is absolutely enveloping and connect the audience with the painter's point of view. I just didn't like the half blurred lense they used to capture Vincent's eyes.

I understand some people found the film too author-made for their taste but I liked it. And ot helped me know more about van Gogh's life.

I’ve never seen a bad Van Gogh film, though this one comes close. _At Eternity’s Gate_ falls into the trap of cataloging events in his life and parading past us inspirations for his paintings, all the while forcing each character to interview Van Gogh with leading questions which permit him to make speeches about life and art.

_At Eternity’s Gate_ is a reproduction of the films that have gone before it (_Lust for Life_ (with Kirk Douglas, 1956), _Van Gogh_ (with Jacques Dutronc, 1991), the beautiful, animated film _Loving Vincent_ (2017)), but it’s a good reproduction of wonderful works.

You see, I have a soft spot for Vincent Van Gogh. In addition to loving his work when I was younger, I was conceited enough to feel an affinity for the artist. Fortunately, I’m nowhere near as mad, yet sadly nowhere near as talented as Dear Vincent. Unfortunately, this movie focuses more on the man’s life than on the man (which, as a lover of Van Gogh, is the film I really wanted to see).

_"Maybe God made me a painter for people who aren't born yet."_

Visually, this is a very compelling film that drips vibrance and grit like one of Van Gogh's paint brushes. Yet, I was left without an emotional conclusion — some scenes which are supposed to carry weigh were short and then abruptly transitioned to the next event. As an ardent fan of the artist, this fell slightly short for me.

Wonderful casts tho.

A painterly reconstruction of the last months of Vincent's life. Slow, occasionally abstract. but not unrewarding.