Gauguin à  Tahiti et aux Marquises

In his final ailing years, in rebellion against the colonial administration and aware of being one of the last witnesses of the end of a world, Gauguin concludes that his life was a failure. Initially a wealthy broker, he abandons everything, money, social status and family, to escape from an industrial society that he condemns and devotes himself wholly to his art. He finds himself alone with a people whose way of life radically changes his vision of the world, and lays the foundations of what was to revolutionise painting. Between exaltation and melancholy, self-confidence and depression, Gauguin à  Tahiti et aux Iles Marquises calls on his paintings and writings to retrace step by step the desperate race towards absolute moral and artistic freedom. (Yann Lardeau)