‘The Peasants’ Directors on How ‘Loving Vincent’ Follow-Up Takes Its Groundbreaking, Hand-Painted Animation Style to Another Level (EXCLUSIVE CLIP)
variety.comChristopher Vourlias With the long-awaited follow-up to their Oscar-nominated animated feature “Loving Vincent,” directors D.K.
Welchman (formerly known as Dorota Kobiela) and Hugh Welchman revisit the striking, hand-painted animation technique that dramatically brought the paintings of Vincent Van Gogh to life in their groundbreaking debut, which grossed more than $50 million globally.
But “The Peasants,” which is based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winning Polish author Władysław Reymont and premieres Sept. 8 at the Toronto Film Festival, is a work of far greater scope and ambition. “The scale of the film is different,” says Hugh. “Whereas ‘Loving Vincent’ was very much talking heads…this is about a community with some huge set pieces.
We have battles, lynchings, big dance numbers, big weddings. It involves many more people, much more dynamic action in a totally different approach to the use of camera than ‘Loving Vincent.’” Set toward the end of the 19th century and lavishly told over the course of four seasons, “The Peasants” tells the story of a young woman struggling for her independence in a village where roles are rigidly defined by family, faith and tradition.
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