Our film for July is Gauguin, Voyage to Tahiti, starring Vincent Cassel as the post-impressionist painter.
Screen the film at home on Kanopy, Tubi TV, Apple TV, Amazon Video, or other popular streaming services, and then join Joelle Pluchon at 12 noon on Thursday, July 18 for a bilingual discussion on Zoom.
Film Details
Original title / Titre originale: Gauguin : Voyage de Tahiti (2017)
Running time / Durée: 1h37m
Genres: Drama, Romance
Directed by / Réalisé par: Édouard Deluc
Casting: Vincent Cassel, Tuheï Adams, Malik Zidi, Pua-Taï Hikutini, Pernille Bergendorff
Stream it online / Regarder sur: Kanopy, Tubi TV, Cohen Media Amazon Channel, Apple TV, Amazon Video, Google Play Movies, YouTube
Nous sommes en 1891. Gauguin s’exile à Tahiti. Il veut trouver sa peinture, en homme libre, en sauvage, loin des codes moraux, politiques et esthétiques de l’Europe civilisée. Il s’enfonce dans la jungle, bravant la solitude, la pauvreté, la maladie. Il y rencontrera Tehura, qui deviendra sa femme, et le sujet de ses plus grandes toiles.
In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.