Original title : La Chute du Barbare
This film deals with the Pont-Aven period in Gauguin’s work and his difficulty in practising his painting due to his lack of money and the disarray of his family situation. The voice-over reads from letters Gauguin wrote to his friends and family, in which he talks about his loneliness, his failing imagination and his passionate relationship with Van Gogh. From Brittany, without seeing his family again, he set sail for Tahiti where, alongside painting, he practised sculpture. He died at the age of 54 without returning to France.