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Genius
Description
Renowned editor Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth) develops a friendship with author Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) while working on the writer's manuscripts. The story also follows the almost 'romantic' affair between Wolfe and Perkins.
Renowned editor Maxwell Perkins (Colin Firth) develops a friendship with author Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) while working on the writer's manuscripts. The story also follows the almost 'romantic' affair between Wolfe and Perkins.
Actors:
Ian Drysdale,
Katya Watson,
Alistair Sanderson,
Ray Strasser King,
Jude Law,
Charles Dinsdale,
Sean White,
Lucy Briers,
Mark Arnold,
James Wallace,
Sophia Brown,
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Ian Drysdale
Katya Watson
Alistair Sanderson
Ray Strasser King
26 October 1989, Penge, London, England, UK
Jude Law
29 December 1972, Lewisham, London, England, UK
Charles Dinsdale
Sean White
Lucy Briers
19 August 1967, Hammersmith, London, England, UK
Mark Arnold
23 May 1957, Broomall, Pennsylvania, USA
James Wallace
8 February 1961, Twentynine Palms, California, USA
Sophia Brown
Director:
Michael Grandage
Michael Grandage
1962
Country:
United States, United Kingdom
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December 13, 2016
A valuable film because of its story and its attractive cultural background, than by its (irregular) artistic results, which owes its most exciting moments to Colin Firth. [Full review in Spanish]June 17, 2016
"Genius" deals with the creative ego, its trappings and the need everyone has for an editor.December 08, 2016
The problem of the film is that the promised magnetism of the story it's hardly found in the screen. [Full review in Spanish]June 16, 2016
An intriguing study of the personalities and torturous process behind some of the early 20th century's great writing.December 19, 2016
A film about literature that is neither literary nor cinematic and it gives the impression that wants to get away from the solemn to reach the popular, but ends up being superficial. [Full review in Spanish]March 15, 2017
If you're looking for a spectacular visual experience, this isn't it. But if you're interested in writers and editors, this film is for you.June 17, 2016
Not nearly as smart as it should be.June 16, 2016
Perhaps the best advertisement for Genius -- not only did it make me want to revisit Berg's book, it had me lining up the Wolfe, Fitzgerald and Hemingway on the e-book runway.December 20, 2016
Any film that takes literature this seriously deserves some credit.June 17, 2016
Well-written, gorgeously shot, and expertly edited, the film is also an exasperating exercise in good intentions gone wrong.January 27, 2017
Unimaginative literary biopic.June 16, 2016
Firth and Law falter with their characters' awkward bromance: the former a fatherly cipher (will he ever take off that fedora?); the latter a clatter of drunken scribe clichés.