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.

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 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.