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The plot premise of Starry Night - the trials and tribulations that Vincent Van Gogh might have if he came back to life was appealing enough for me to pick this movie off the rental video shelf. And the movie starts out promisingly enough with Don McLean's song "Starry, Starry Night". Unfortunately that is the high point.First of all the production values in this movie are sadly lacking. The low point is the scenes "in France" are clearly travelogue interspersed with close-up cuts of the actors. They culminate in a scene in a church crypt that is more like a funeral home casket display room than a crypt. Bizarre.Then there is the acting which ranges from bad to appalling. None of the actors do very well but particularly of note is Sally Kirkland who plays the meanest policeman to come down the pike. The love angle is strange, given that Van Gogh's status is never addressed - is he a zombie, an apparition or is he just alive again but about to die in a 100 days per the way he was bewitched?Then there is the credibility angle. Is it really possible for a person to walk into an auction for a $100 million painting, pick up the painting and run out with it?Finally there is the biggest continuity gaffe I have ever seen. The same scene (actually the same plot point) regarding the first theft of a picture is repeated twice!
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