Lust for Life - Blu-ray

Deep orange sunflowers. Waving yellow grass. Trees strewn with white flowers. "The images come to me as in a dream," Vincent Van Gogh claimed. A dream that too often turned into a persistent nightmare. Golden Globe and Film Critics Award winner Kirk Douglas delivers a storming portrait of an artist torn between the joyous inspiration of his genius and the dark despair of his tormented mind. Van Gogh passionately painted the way others breathe. He abandoned family and friends, including painter Paul Gauguin (Anthony Quinn). Soaked in the colourful tones of Van Gogh's seas, fields and skies, director Vincent Minelli's Thirst for Life captures true artistic ecstasy. And the agony of a human life...