I rarely watch biographies, but then I caught the eye of Michael Grandage’s film “Genius”, I decided to watch it, attracted by the names of the main actors – Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman. The film tells about the complex relationship between the writer Thomas Wolfe and the publisher, who first ventured to publish his verbose
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I rarely watch biographies, but then I caught the eye of Michael Grandage’s film “Genius”, I decided to watch it, attracted by the names of the main actors – Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman. The film tells about the complex relationship between the writer Thomas Wolfe and the publisher, who first ventured to publish his verbose works by Max Perkins (William Maxwell Evarts Perkins), thanks to Perkins began to publish F.S. Fitzgerald and E. Hemingway. The film is an adaptation of Andrew Scott Berg's novel, Maxwell Perkins: Editor of a Genius. I cannot say that the film has an exciting plot, but it seems to me that despite such a composition, it would look somewhat different if another director took up its production, this is his first film, he himself is an actor and director, mostly theatrical, and this left an imprint on the external drawing and even on the appearance of almost all the characters, the theatricality there is noticeable. So the film turned out to be quite average, but if anyone is interested in the topic, you can watch it.
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