New York Film Festival 2018 (forum)

[Chris Knipp]

Closing Night: Julian Schnabel: At Eternity's Gate


Willem Dafoe in Schnabel's At Eternity's Gate

"Willem Dafoe leads the brilliant cast, which also includes Oscar Isaac, Rupert Friend, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, and Mads Mikkelsen."

"At Eternity’s Gate is such a surprising film, for all kinds of reasons. Julian Schnabel makes use of the most up-to-date information about Vincent van Gogh, altering our accepted ideas of how he lived and died; he grounds the film in the very action of painting, the intense contact between an artist and the world of forms and textures colored by light; and he gives us Willem Dafoe’s performance as Vincent—acting this pure is endlessly surprising."
– Kent Jones, NYFF Director and Selection Committee Chair.