OVIRI The Wolf at the Door (1986)

Biographical film, based on the life of French artist Paul Gauguin (Donald Sutherland). In 1893, Paul Gauguin arrived back in France from Tahiti with 66 canvases and 4 francs in his pocket. He was confident enough to suppose that his new paintings would take the art world by storm and transform his career. He held an exhibition at the Durand-Ruell Gallery in Paris. It was a fiasco, received with contempt, which succeeded only in plunging him in debt. For the next 18 months, he tried desperately to accumulate enough money to escape once again from the narrow-mindedness and northern chill of Europe, this time for good. OVIRI tells the story of this period in Gauguin's life and of the four women with whom he was involved.