My film, The Eyes of Van Gogh, is a story, never told before, about
the 12 months Vincent van Gogh spent in the insane asylum at St. Remy. It is a film about his brother, Theo van Gogh
(Gordon Joseph Weiss) and about Vincent and Paul Gauguin (Lee Godart) in the Yellow
House in Arles. It is a film about
painters and artists, Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Most important, it is a film about madness; a
film of obsession.
After the disastrous
months spent with Gauguin in the yellow house in Arles, Vincent van Gogh, in
desperate search of a cure from attacks that increasingly plague him,
voluntarily enters an insane asylum in the town of St. Remy 10 miles from the Yellow
House. Van Gogh, portrayed by Alexander Barnett, entrusts himself to the care of
Dr. Peyron, played by Roy Thinnes.
