What is At Eternity's Gate about?
Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
No. Brace yourself.
At Eternity's Gate (2018)
A tormented artist finds melancholy beauty in the natural world during his final, measured years.
Intimate and earnest. A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating. Based on true events.
Streaming on Prime Video, Kanopy (free), Hoopla (free), The Roku Channel (free), YouTube (free), Plex (free) and 1 more.
At Eternity's Gate parents guide
It stays inside its PG-13, with no sex or nudity and mild language.
Rated PG-13, but by what is on screen our estimate is fine from about 7.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- None noted
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
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Cast and crew
Directed byJulian Schnabel
StarringWillem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner
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