Jan Cox: A Painter's Odyssey
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Pierre Declercq
Adriaan Raemdonck
Tom Messer
Hugo Claus
Gerrit Kouwenaar
Pierre Alechinsky
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Biographical documentary on the Belgian painter Jan Cox (1919-1980), who committed suicide in 1980.
Cast
Adriaan Raemdonck
Tom Messer
Hugo Claus
Gerrit Kouwenaar
Pierre Alechinsky
Jeroen Krabbe
Harry Cox
Yvonne Van Ginneken
Crew
Pierre Alechinsky
Bert Beyens
Hugo Claus
Harry Cox
Pierre Declercq
Raymond Fromont
Raymond Fromont
Walter Heynen
Gerrit Kouwenaar
Tom Messer
Adriaan Raemdonck
Miguel Rejas
Willem Thijssen
Ann Van Aken
Yvonne Van Ginneken
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
The film traces the life of the painter Jan Cox in 24 image songs titled: "Far-From-The-War" "Harry Cox Recalls" "In 1934..." "Struggle With Matter" "Models in Hiding" "Self Portrait: 1944" "To Create With the Purest Means" "Jan Cox" "Film By J. Cox" "From Brussels Jan Cox writes Letters to Valentin" "I Colori di Roma" "Day Is Night Overseas" "Mr. Cox: Head of the Painting Department" "Painter in the afternoon in his Studio on Washington Street" "Exhibition in New York" "A Personage and the Marble" "Orpheus at Midnight" "Return to Belgium" "Love and Hate, One Word" "Self Portrait: 1975" "Diaries" "Recollections" "The Passion" "On the Night of October 7th Jan Cox takes his life"
Shown at Cannes Film Festival (market) May 1989.
16mm
color
dialogue Dutch and English
