CLASSIC PAINTERS: “Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti.” / "Goya's Ghosts.” / “Klimt.”
“Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti” (2017, Tubi) French autobiographical drama, focused on French painter Paul Gauguin's affair with a younger lady in Tahiti. The direction of Edouard Deluc is quietly kneading and doesn’t divert to moralism or high-handed statements. Credits as well to co-writers Etienne Comar and Thomas Lilti. This is simply Monsieur Gauguin: Flawed, vulnerable, stubborn, brilliant. And yes Vincent Cassel as Paul is definitely one of the best in French cinema. 🎥💻📽 “Goya's Ghosts” (2006, Plex) biographical drama about Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Directed by Milos Forman (d. 2018), the genius behind “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest” (1975), “Amadeus” (1984), “The People vs. Larry Flynt” (1996), and many others. And the leads Javier Bardem (as Lorenzo Casamares), Natalie Portman (as Ines Balbatua) and Stellan Skarsgard as Goya are no-brainers. ...