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GENIUS (UK/USA 2015) ****
Directed by Michael Grandage
Starring: Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Vanessa Kirby, Dominic West, Guy Pearce
Review by Gilbert Seah
GENIUS is a British-American drama based on the 1978 National Book Award-winner “Max Perkins: Editor of Genius” by A. Scott Berg.
The film opens in New York City 1929 at the height of the American Depression, which is depicted only in a few of the film’s selected scenes. The film traces the life of the rich and talented. They leave out the poor, those who never get a chance to ever read of book or go to school. The genius in the film is Thomas Wolfe (Jude Law) who every literary enthusiast knows wrote “Look Homeward, Angel” and “Of Time and the River”. It is the mentoring of Wolfe under…
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