Review of At Eternity's Gate (2018) by Brunovn00 — 09 Oct 2019

I won't deny that Williem Dafoe's performance was phenomenal, but besides that, everything else is so...Meh. This movie has no plot, no structure and no focus. The only conflict I found is that the movie constantly shows that people are not ready to understand Van Gogh's art and that he was ahead of its time.

I feel like this could've been better if this was like a 30 minute short film, not a 2 hour-feature lenght film, because honestly that's all the movie is about. The technical aspects feel so amateur. The shaky cam technique is overused.

I could understand the use of it because there are points in the movie that are shown in first person, but when it's not used for that...It gives me a headache, like...Put a tripod, cameraman! The editing feels amateur too, like there are points where the music just stops abruptly and I feel like that would be more like something a high school student would do.

The music sounds like generic stock music downloaded from a website and it's repetitive. I honestly give this movie bonus points because of the acting. The only real redeeming factor is the acting. Almost all actors gave their all with the material they were given.

Also the movie was also fairly well written for the most part.