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Director Robert Altman explores the relationship between Vincent Van Gogh (Tim Roth) and his brother Theo (Paul Rhys). Life for Vincent is difficult, he struggles financially and his mental health suffers accordingly. Meanwhile Theo is having little success as a gallery owner, and is troubled in his marriage with Jo Bonger (Johanna Tersteege). The film contrasts the poverty which surrounded both brothers with the affluence of the contemporary art world.

A blistering unsentimental portrait of the great Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh Robert Altman’s VINCENT AND THEO focuses on the deeply neurotic relationship between the unstable impoverished Vincent (Tim Roth) and his art dealer brother Theo (Paul Rhys) Specifically the film investigates the role Theo played in providing the normality and connection to the outer world that Vincent lacked–while Vincent in turn acted as the living embodiment of Theo’s unfulfilled artistic aspirations In the end Theo’s inability to secure his brother’s financial independence and help him achieve a sense of self-worth by selling his paintings caused him a misery almost as profound as Vincent’s As the introverted Vincent Roth delivers an intensely passionate performance and Rhys is just as moving as the more reserved Theo Altman chooses to concentrate on the artist himself likely providing a deeper insight into the individual than scenes of him painting ever could VINCENT AND THEO remains an unflinching and powerful interpretation of the life of one of the world’s most famous artists

In life he was impoverished his work largely ignored; yet today paintings by Vincent Van Gogh fetch millions of dollars at auction. This supreme irony is laid bare in the passionate story of an obsessive artist driven by inexorable demons and his alternately devoted and despairing younger brother who seems unable to live with him…..or without him.