The film, Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, centres on a critically acclaimed, sold-out blockbuster exhibition of his works at London’s National Gallery, which ran from last September to this January — mounted 100 years after the gallery purchased its first Van Gogh.
The exhibition focused on his very productive final two years of paintings and drawings before he fatally shot himself in 1890 at the age of 37.
The Observer newspaper called it "eye-catching, heartbreaking and unmissable".
The film, by the UK’s leading producer of films about art, "is simply the next best thing to the thrill of being able to see a major exhibition in person," says Arrowtown Creative Arts Society (ACAS) co-chair and Queenstown gallerist, Kelly Carmichael.
The screening, the second of three in ACAS’s inaugural Winter Art Film Series, is at Arrowtown Lifestyle Village’s boutique cinema at 6.30pm on September 19, which Carmichael labels "Arrowtown’s best-kept secret".
Tickets are for sale via eventfinda.co.nz
