History WesternAnimation / LovingVincent

''Loving Vincent'' is a feature-length animated film - the first where every frame is a painting.

A Polish/British/American collaboration, 125 painters helped to create the thousands of oil paintings necessary to animate this film.

* TheQueensLatin: Though the film is set in France, with almost entirely French characters, the cast is made up of actors from England, Ireland, and Scotland, who mostly use their native accents.[[note]]Saorise Ronan is an exception, as she uses [=RP=] rather than her Irish accent, possibly to emphasize the Gachets' position in town.[[/note]]

* AdultFear: Vincent claimed he shot himself and was dying; his brother feared the worst and came to see him on his deathbed. Since the doctor had left, saying there was nothing to be done, all Theo could do was hold his brother's hand and wait for the end.

* RealityEnsues:
** Armand's extended mission eventually does make him lose his job, which in turn makes him lose his place at the inn.
** Also, the amount of casual drinking everyone in France seems prone to results in him turning up at the inn rather wobbly.

* NotSoDifferent: Armand gradually realizes this about himself and Vincent, as Vincent, before discovering his love for art, was unable to hold down steady employment even as a missionary, much like Armand's troubles holding down a job.

* FamousLastWords: "No one is to blame." Hearing this is what makes Armand suspicious that Vincent did not kill himself and he finds it so strange that he thinks Dr. Gachet is covering the truth. [[spoiler: Dr. Gachet is sincere in his belief of a suicide; he interpreted the words in the context of their argument and believed Vincent was trying to absolve him of the guilt he felt.]]

* TitleDrop: Vincent signs his letters as ''your loving Vincent.''

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Several scenes are repeated and made more clear from another's perspective. For instance, some in Auvers assume Vincent and Dr. Gachet quarreled over Vincent's friendship with Marguerite - but the doctor later reveals the fight was over his artistic pretensions.

* KidsAreCruel: The youths Vincent hung around within Auvers enjoyed tormenting and bullying him, especially Rene. Armand questions why he even hung around them.

''Loving Vincent'' is a feature-length animated film - the first where every frame is a painting. It's also unique in another way, being an English language animated film aimed at adults that averts [[AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark another unfortunate trope]].

* AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark: Averted. The film is aimed at adults for its serious tone and heavy themes, as opposed to raunchy comedy.

''Loving Vincent'' is a feature-length animated film - the first where every frame is a painting. It's also unique in another way, being an English language animated film aimed at adults that is [[AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark another unfortunate trope]].

''Loving Vincent'' is a feature-length animated film - the first where every frame is literally a painting. It's also unique in another way, being an English language animated film aimed at adults that is [[AllAdultAnimationIsSouthPark another unfortunate trope]].

One year after Creator/VincentVanGogh's death, his friend Joseph Roulin finds a lost letter addressed to Vincent's younger brother, Theo. Joseph gives his son Armand the task of finding Theo and delivering the letter. While trying to complete this assignment, Armand meets many people who were important to Vincent during the painter's last weeks alive, and also starts to question whether the accepted story of Vincent's suicide is actually true.

* AccidentalMurder: After his investigation, Armand concludes that [[spoiler:Rene Secretan accidentally and drunkenly shot Vincent, and Vincent lied about the incident to protect him.]]
* AgeLift: In real life, Adeline Ravoux (the innkeeper's daughter) was 13 when Van Gogh died. In the film, she appears to be about the same age as Armand, who is 20.

* AnimalMotif: Crows. Vincent's last panting was ''Wheatfield with Crows'', which Armand scatters when he visits the site. They are also flapping around at various stops on his journey and his investigation, and there is a flashback to Vincent's fascination with a crow that raids his lunch.

* DeathByDespair: Pere Tanguy says this happened to Theo: after Vincent's death, he lost his will to live, and not even his own infant son could rouse him back to life. In real life, one of the causes of his death was listed as [[TearJerker sadness]]. According to Paul Gachet, [[spoiler: Theo had [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphilis#Tertiary tertiary-stage syphilis]], which meant that any form of shock - physical, emotional, or financial - could prove too much for him]].

* DrivenToSuicide: The general belief is that Vincent killed himself, but Armand picks up various clues that lead him to believe he didn't: Vincent apparently hadn't been planning to end his life due to his ordering more paint, a letter to Armand's father describes Vincent in a calm mood, he would have shot himself in a bizarre place and chose to suffer for hours rather than finish the act, and the angle of the shot was ruled impossible to be a suicide. Dr. Gachet still believes that he committed suicide, however, due to guilt from practically bankrupting his brother and worsening his health. [[DeathByDespair Not that his death made Theo any better...]]
* DrowningMySorrows: After losing his job, and realizing that Van Gogh was much more than the troublesome madman Armand had dismissed him as, Armand has a few drinks too many... ending in a drunken brawl that lands him in jail for the night.

* ExactWords: Marguerite declares that she doesn't go in for village gossip. Later, when she asks Armand about his fight and he reminds her of that statement, she tells him that's one reason people employ servants--to get gossip for them.

* FamousLastWords: "No one is to blame." Hearing this is what makes Armand suspicious that Vincent did not kill himself and he finds it so strange that he thinks Dr. Gachet is covering the truth. [[spoiler:Dr. Gachet is sincere in his belief of a suicide; he interpreted the words in the context of their argument and believed Vincent was trying to absolve him of the guilt he felt.]]

* FriendToAllChildren: Vincent is described as being good with kids, and there's a heartwarming anecdote where he helps a young girl draw a chicken. [[spoiler:This may have also contributed to his refusal to name Rene as the shooter, wanting to protect the youth.]]
* GargleBlaster: The boatman offers Armand a drink from his own recipe, which is ''much'' stronger than what Armand had already imbibed over the course of the day.

* HotBlooded: Armand is hot-tempered and gets in a number of fights over the course of the film.

* IWillFindYou: Armand's mission starts as this: he's tasked with finding Vincent van Gogh's brother, Theo, in order to deliver one of Vincent's letters.
* InkSuitActor: The characters in the film resemble Van Gogh's portraits (which, of course, portrayed real people), but also strongly resemble their actors. Marguerite Gachet in particular more closely resembles Saoirse Ronan than her real-life counterpart.

** Dr. Gachet [[spoiler:throws Theo's declining health in Vincent's face during a heated argument, saying that having to support Vincent might be driving him into an early death. Gachet thinks this caused Vincent's suicidal mood due to believing everyone would be better off without him]].
** Marguerite believes this [[spoiler:because she withdrew from Vincent on her father's advice to stop "distracting" him from his masterpieces. Even if Rene ''was'' the shooter, as Armand tries to assure her, Vincent was still only there because of the consuming loneliness that her coldness made worse]].

* KidsAreCruel: The youths Vincent hung around with in Auvers enjoyed tormenting and bullying him, especially Rene. Armand questions why he even hung around them.

* MisunderstoodLonerWithAHeartOfGold: Several people comment on Vincent's loneliness, and even the few who like him find him eccentric. But - as shown by his tenderness for children and animals, his politeness towards Rene's girl friends, and his desire not to be a burden on others - he still has a kind heart.

* NotSoDifferent: Armand gradually realizes this about himself and Vincent, as Vincent, prior to discovering his love for art, was unable to hold down steady employment even as a missionary, much like Armand's troubles holding down a job.

'''Armand''': I know that he... tried hard. To prove that he was good for something.

* OnceMoreWithClarity: Several scenes are repeated and made more clear from another's perspective. For instance, some in Auvers assume Vincent and Dr. Gachet quarreled over Vincent's friendship with Marguerite - but the doctor later reveals the fight was over his own artistic pretensions.

* TheQueensLatin: Though the film is set in France, with almost entirely French characters, the cast is made up with actors from England, Ireland, and Scotland, who mostly use their own native accents.[[note]]Saorise Ronan is an exception, as she uses [=RP=] rather than her own Irish accent, possibly to emphasize the Gachets' position in town.[[/note]]
* QuickNip: The Boy with the Cornflower's uncle keeps a bottle of cider in his toolbasket, which he shares with Armand.

* RedHerring: Armand suspects that Vincent's relationship with Marguerite and his later argument with Dr. Gachet led to his suicide, but Marguerite reveals later that Vincent didn't have serious feelings for her. As for Dr. Gachet, the clues Armand gathers from others initially lead him to suspect Gachet of covering up the truth for some reason of his own. Further conversation reveals, however, that Gachet really is convinced it was suicide because of his own guilt. [[spoiler:Armand delivers the letter into his care.]]

* FamousLastWords: "No one is to blame." Hearing this is what makes Armand suspicious that Vincent did not kill himself and he finds it so strange that he thinks Dr. Gachet is covering the truth. [[spoiler:Dr. Gachet is sincere in his belief of a suicide; interpreted the words in the context of their argument and believed Vincent was trying to absolve him of the guilt he felt.]]

* GargleBlaster: The boatman offers Armand a drink from his own recipe, which is ''much'' stronger than what he'd already imbibed over the course of the day.

* QuickNip: The Boy with the Cornflower's uncle keeps a bottle of wine in his toolbasket, which he shares with Armand.

* RealityEnsues: Armand's extended mission eventually does make him lose his job, which in turn makes him lose his place at the inn.

* AnimalMotif: There are a lot of crows flapping around as Armand tries to work out how and why Vincent died.

* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Dr. Gachet believes that he drove Vincent to suicide by saying, in a heated argument, that Vincent was ruining Theo's life and health with the stress of supporting him. Marguerite believes the same for withdrawing her friendship on her father's advice.]]

* PartingWordsRegret: Dr. Gachet deeply regrets the argument he had with Vincent.

* TheQueensLatin: Though the film is set in France, with almost entirely French characters, everyone speaks English with British accents.

* RealLifeWritesThePlot: Starting in the 2000s, some scholars have theorized that Van Gogh ''was'' murdered, or at least the victim of an accidental shooting by a young companion that Vincent lied about to spare the child's feelings.

* AccidentalMurder: After his investigation, Armand concludes that [[spoiler:Rene Secraten accidentally and drunkenly shot Vincent, and Vincent lied about the incident to protect him.]]