Nov 21, Dec 4: Movie – VAN GOGH: OF WHEAT FIELDS AND CLOUDED SKIES

A look at Van Gogh through the legacy of Helene Kröller-Müller (1869-1939) the largest private collector of artworks by the Dutch painter, who, in the early 20th Century, ended up buying nearly 300 of his works, paintings and drawings included.

RAGLAN MOVIES at the OLD SCHOOL, 5 Stewart Street, Raglan

VAN GOGH: OF WHEAT FIELDS AND CLOUDED SKIES  Documentary Exempt 90 mins.

Sunday 21st November 4.30pm

Saturday 4th December 5.30pm

Movie screenings will run under the Orange Covid setting with Vaccine Passes and face coverings. On arrival please check in by scanning the QR poster or with the manual register. Have your Vaccine Pass ready for sighting or scanning. Vaccine Passes and face coverings are not required for children aged 11 and under. When you are seated face coverings are recommended but not mandatory.

Book online: raglanmovies.nz, call into the Old School office Mon-Fri 10am to 2pm. (Office closed public holidays)

Door sales from 30 mins before session times.

Licensed bar & homemade snacks on sale at all screenings.

Adults $15, Concession $12, RCAC Members $12, Children $8.
The reduced concession rate is for $12 concession (student, seniors or CS cards).

Helene Kroller-Muller (1869-1939), in the early 20th Century, ended up buying nearly 300 of Van Gogh’s works, paintings and drawings included.

The story unfolds of a woman who, in Van Gogh’s spiritual torment could recognize her own, showing priceless artistic treasures and the rare, naturalistic and architectural beauty of the Kroller-Muller Museum set in the vast De Hoge Weluge park, as well as visual extracts of the Milanese, Florentine, Roman and Palladian Renaissance. It tells the tormented, existential parable of a painter, seen through passages from his brother Theo’s letters, which set the pace of the exhibition, and it shows images of the places he lived and stayed in, from Paris to Provence.

The opportunity to tell the story of this collection and of the burning passion for art that led to it, is an outstanding exhibition on Van Gogh. Amid wheat fields and clouded skies at the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza, brings together 40 paintings and 85 drawings from the Kroller-Muller Museum in Otterlo, Holland, now home to Kroller-Muller’s heritage.

DIRECTED BY: Giovanni Piscagli

Documentary Exempt, 90 Minutes