Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson’s Loving Vincent to premiere at National Gallery during LFF

Striking oil: Aidan Turner stars in brand new film Loving Vincent
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Robert Dex @RobDexES23 August 2017
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Poldark stars Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson’s new movie — which claims to be the first fully painted feature film — is getting its UK premiere at the National Gallery.

The pair are among the cast for Loving Vincent, an animated movie about the life and death of Van Gogh.

The actors, who also include Helen McCrory and Saoirse Ronan, play characters brought to life from some of the painter’s most famous works.

Tomlinson, best known as Demelza in the hit BBC drama, plays Adeline Ravoux, a young woman who was painted by Van Gogh while her innkeeper father helped care for him in the weeks before his death in 1890.

Famous roles:  Eleanor Tomlinson and Aidan Turner in Poldark

Turner stars as a boatman inspired by the Dutch artist’s portrait of a young peasant, and Ronan and McCrory play two of the many other subjects of his paintings.

More than 100 artists signed up to work on the project, which involved hand-painting thousands of oils which formed the basis of the film.

Loving Vincent will be shown at the BFI London Film Festival on October 9. The festival said the screening of the “inventive, visually arresting film” would also be broadcast live in cinemas across the country.

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