Vincent and Me
Directed byMichael Rubbo
Written byMichael Rubbo
Produced byRock Demers
Claude Nedjar
StarringNina Petronzio
Christopher Forrest
Paul Klerk
Alexandre Vernon Dobtcheff
Anna-Maria Giannotti
Andrée Pelletier
Jeanne Calment
Matthew Mabe
Tchéky Karyo
CinematographyAndreas Poulsson
Music byPierick Houdy
Release date
  • 13 December 1990 (1990-12-13) (Canada)
Running time
100 mins[1]
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

Vincent and Me (French-language title: Vincent et moi) is a 1990 French Canadian fantasy film. The movie was directed by Michael Rubbo and is the 11th in the Tales for All (Contes Pour Tous) series of children's movies created by Les Productions la Fête.

Jeanne Calment, appeared as herself, aged 114, the oldest person to ever appear in a motion picture, a fact that gained her a placing in Guinness World Records.[2] Calment claimed to have met Vincent van Gogh ca. 1888 when she was 12 or 13.[3]

Plot

Jo, a girl from Quebec, loves to draw, and she is good enough at it to win a scholarship. She goes to the city from her small town to study at a special art school, where more than anything else, she hopes to learn to paint like her hero, Vincent van Gogh. While sketching faces one day, she encounters a mysterious European art dealer who buys a few of her drawings, and commissions her to do some more. He rewards her handsomely for her work, and goes back to Amsterdam. Not long after, Jo is shown a magazine story about the "discovery" and million-dollar sale of some of the drawings of young Vincent van Gogh, drawings only she and her friend Felix know are hers. The only thing to do is for Jo and friends to get to Amsterdam and find the mystery man; or, better still, go right to the source and speak to Vincent himself in 19th-century Arles.

Cast

  • Nina Petronzio as Jo
  • Christopher Forrest as Felix Murphy
  • Paul Klerk as Joris
  • Vernon Dobtcheff (billed as Alexandre Vernon Dobtchef) as Dr. Winkler
  • Anna-Maria Giannotti as Grain
  • Andrée Pelletier as Mrs. Wallis
  • Matthew Mabe as Tom Mainfield
  • Tchéky Karyo as Vincent van Gogh
  • Jeanne Calment as herself
  • Kiki Classen
  • Maria Giannotti
  • Inge Ipenburg
  • Michel Maillot
  • Wally Martin

References

  1. ↑ "Vincent et moi". Culture et communications, Quebec. 24 October 1990. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
  2. ↑ "Oldest Person". Guinness World Records. Retrieved 24 February 2014.
  3. ↑ Whitney, Craig R. (5 August 1997). "Jeanne Calment, World's Elder, Dies at 122". New York Times. Retrieved 4 August 2008.


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