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Willem Dafoe to play painter Van Gogh in new biopic |
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In this file photo Julian Schnabel, Vladislav, Doronin and Vanessa Grout are seen at the installation of Julian Schnabel's monumental sculpture 'AHAB' at Miami's Brickell Flatiron Sales & Design Gallery at on December 3, 2014 in Miami, Florida. Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images for Brickell Flatiron/AFP.
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CANNES (AFP).- Hollywood star Willem Dafoe is to play the painter Vincent Van Gogh in a new film about the tortured genius by artist Julian Schnabel, its producers said Sunday.
"At Eternity's Gate" takes its title from one of Van Gogh's last canvasses which shows a man holding his head in his hands.
"This is a film about painting and a painter and their relationship to infinity," said Schnabel, who won best director at the Cannes film festival in 2007 for "The Diving Bell and the Butterfly".
"It is told by a painter. It contains what I felt were essential moments in his life. This is not the official history -- it's my version," he added.
Schnabel wrote the script with acclaimed French screenwriter Jean-Claude Carriere.
The film -- which will be shot in France -- centres on Van Gogh's time in the southern French city of Arles and the village of Auvers-sur-Oise, near Paris.
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