At Eternity’s Gate was born in the Parisian Museum d'Orsay. Painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel with his friend, film legend Jean-Claude Carrière, attended an exhibition about the famous Dutch painter.
Today, they remember how the idea of making a film about Vincent van Gogh came to life unexpectedly from that casual talk about the exhibition. In this sense, Carrière recalls: "what I found extremely interesting was the idea of having a film about the art of painting made by a painter".
A vision of the last days of Van Gogh that does not resemble any other
From that spark, Schnabel put together a narrative structure that creates an effect similar to that experienced after seeing more than 30 paintings.
"The experience becomes something more. It becomes a cluster of all those different feelings together", says the filmmaker.
Schnabel added that "as you see the events happening to Vincent, it feels as if all that period of his life is happening in a moment".
Therefore, in a surprising cinematographic result, this feature film starring Willem Dafoe exposes the feelings of the artist in the random act of creation.
