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Tim Burton's Vincent

Review by Noel Murray

In my Career View feature about Tim Burton, I called Burton’s 1982 short film Vincent one of his two “perfect” films (along with Pee-wee’s Big Adventure). I won’t rehash what I wrote in that piece, except to note once again how well Vincent encapsulates what would be the dominant motif of Burton’s early career—the suburban misfit who wishes he lived in a darker, stranger world—and how crisply and entertainingly Burton cuts between young Vincent’s sunny reality and his gloomy fantasy.

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Vincent (1982) directed by Tim Burton

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