The son of Vincent van Gogh's mailman is trying to find one of the dead artist's family members to deliver a letter to.
A pretty waste. The visuals looked great and the animation was done well and in the artist's style. However, the plot was seriously lacking and the settings seemed extremely derivative. The whole premise of why this was supposed to be good was because it was hand painted in van Gogh's style, but that turned out to be a negative aspect. The filmmakers leaned too heavily this, using it more as a crutch than a starting point. It started with Starry Night, the bedroom and cafe made an appearance and then there were the fields. The actors were rotoscoped and composited from green screen onto painting backgrounds and you can tell by watching it. This process made the renderings too realistic and un-van Gogh. I also thought that the color vs black and white scenes should have been the opposite way around. Wouldn't it make sense to have vibrant colors when the artist was alive and a lack thereof now that he has died? I can only imagine that the filmmakers wanted to portray a difference between past and present, but it didn't make sense to me. This whole deal with the artist's mailman's son delivering a letter seemed forced, contrived and too distant from actual events. He talks to people in town and tries to figure out who knows how Vincent died and who is lying to him. I was really hoping for a film portraying the artist, his work and his eccentricities. I can appreciate how much work went into making this and it did look good, but that is where positive aspects end. Everything else was inadequate. I rate this tolerable. You should probably watch My Love (2006) instead.
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