Let me tell you about a man I knew (Susan Fletcher)

Let me tell you about a man I knew

Nobody knows the name of the painter that has arrived to the Monastery in Saint-Rémy,  which has become an assylum for the troubled mind.

However, soon gossip about the painter savage red hair and the story of his severed ear fills the talking of the women in the market of the village. As you soon see, the painter is not other than Vincent Van Gogh.

After the turbulent life with Gaughin, who is accused of sending Vincent to madness, he looks for refuge in the French countryside.

Jeanne Trabuc is the wife of the warden of the assylum. Although she knows that entiring the hospital is prohibited , she feels attracted by the painter, who leads her to start questioning her life, to try to understand the world from a diferent perspective.

His full-of-painted overalls, his erratic behaviour, his troubled and intense personality, change the life in the asylum, This is the time of a prolific production, being the most famour painting that he paints there  'The starry Night', which has been reproduced to the infinitum.

The power of this narrative is centred in the portray of the life of this woman, who gradually becomes more aware of her own world and the possible lives she could have had if she had taken other actions. Vincent is the the background. However, his presence is imposible to shade, his influence in Jeanne powerful and unforgettable.

Ana Ovejero

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