"Julian Schnabel has made a heartfelt reverent film about the last years in the life of Vincent van Gogh - acted by Willem Dafoe with all the integrity and unselfconscious ease that you would expect from this great actor - highlighting his fiercely painful friendship with Gauguin." (The Guardian)
"Schnabel, his co-writers Jean-Claude Carrière and Louise Kugelberg (also the film's editor), and cinematographer Benoît Delhomme strip everything down to essentials, fusing the sensual, the emotional, and the spiritual. And the pulsing heart of 'At Eternity's Gate' is Willem Dafoe's shattering performance: his Vincent is at once lucid, mad, brilliant, helpless, defeated, and, finally, triumphant. With Oscar Isaac as Gauguin, Rupert Friend as Theo, Mathieu Amalric as Dr. Gachet, Emmanuelle Seigner as Madame Ginoux, and Mads Mikkelsen as The Priest." (NYFF)
