The part of vigorous impressionist painter Paul Gauguin is well suited to Donald Sutherland in this colourful slice of the painter's life. At the start of the story here, Gauguin has been to Tahiti and is now back in Paris trying to sell his pictures. Much of the film is devoted to watching the artist at work and socialising with other artists and writers. Apart from Sutherland and Max von Sydow as the writer August Strindberg, everyone else in this film seems to be rather underwritten and clichéd. But it does look good and anyone interested in the artist will be fascinated.

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