CinemaOSMovie · 2019 · 0h 58m

Gauguin: A Dangerous Life

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Gauguin’s vivid artworks sell for millions. He was an inspired and committed multi-media artist who worked with the Impressionists and had a tempestuous relationship with Vincent van Gogh. But he was also a competitive and rapacious man who left his wife to bring up five children and used his colonial privilege to travel to Polynesia, where in his 40s he took ‘wives’ between 13 and 15 years old, creating images of them and their world that promoted a fantasy paradise of an unspoilt Eden in the Pacific. Later, he challenged the colonial authorities and the Catholic Church in defence of the indigenous people, dying in the Marquesas Islands in 1903, sick, impoverished and alone.

Directed byPatricia Wheatley

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 58m
Language
EN
Released
December 1, 2019
Studios
BBC FourBBCGauguin Films Limited

Featuring

Cast & crew

7 credited
Starring
Dominic West

Dominic West

Voice of Paul Gauguin

Marcel Tai Gauguin

Mette Gauguin

Tai Shan Schierenberg

Tai Shan Schierenberg

Tyla Vaeau

Kehinde Wiley

Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin

Self (archive footage)

Creative team
Directed by
Patricia Wheatley

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