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“I think you’re the first person to see that cats are ridiculous, frightened, and brave... like us.” The Electrical Life of Louis Wain 2021 | dir. William Sharpe

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shattereddteacup · 2 years

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The Electric Life of Louis Wain (2021)

Dir. Will Sharpe

Language: English

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scenesandscreens · 2 years

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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

Director - Will Sharpe, Cinematography - Erik Wilson

"I don't make the world beautiful, Louis. The world is beautiful, and you've helped me to see that, too. Just remember - however hard things get, however much you feel like you're struggling, the world is full of beauty. And it's up to you to capture it, Louis. To look and to share it with as many people as you can. You are a prism through which that beam of life refracts."

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realllllmew · 2 years

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The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain

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moviemosaics · 2 years

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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

directed by Will Sharpe, 2021

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moviepostersets · 2 years

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#The Electrical Life of Louis Wain #Movie Posters #Benedict Cumberbatch #Claire Foy #Andrea Riseborough #Aimee Lou Wood #Hayley Squires #Stacy Martin #Sharon Rooney

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detournementsmineurs · 2 years

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Aimee Lou Wood, Stacy Martin, Hayley Squires, Sharon Rooney et les participations de Taika Waititi et Nick Cave, ainsi que la voix-off d'Olivia Colman dans “La Vie Extraordinaire de Louis Wain (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain)” biopic de Will Sharpe - sur la vie du peintre de chats anthropomorphes Louis Wain (1860-1939) - février 2022.

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popentertainment-moviereviews · 3 years

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THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN (2021)

Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones, Jamie Demetriou, Aimee Lou Wood, Cassia McCarthy, Hayley Squires, Stacy Martin, Indica Watson, Julian Barratt, Sharon Rooney, Adeel Akhtar, Asim Chaudhry, Sophia Di Martino, Olivier Richters, Nick Cave, Taika Waititi, Richard Ayoade and the voice of Olivia Colman.

Screenplay by Simon Stephenson and Will Sharpe.

Directed by Will Sharpe.

Distributed by Amazon Studios. 111 minutes. Rated PG-13.

Screened for the 2021 Philadelphia Film Festival.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain has an opening chyron which reads “This is a true story.” That is a fairly bold statement for a movie. Most biopics tend to couch that kind of claim, saying that they are “based on a true story.” No such timidity here. Louis Wain goes all in.

There are just a couple of problems with this. First of all, Louis Wain does not feel that true. I don’t know much about the subject of the film, but the storytelling here feels a bit stylized, a bit enhanced, a bit “based on.” Secondly, there is the much more basic question: Is this a story which needed telling?

Sadly, for the most part I tend to feel the answer to that question is no.

Louis Wain was once a rather famous illustrator, mostly known for his caricatures of cats which became quite popular during the Victorian era. In fact, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain claims that Wain was single-handedly responsible for making cats popular in Victorian England – which feels like a bit of a stretch, considering that cats were beloved in many ancient civilizations long before this story takes place.

Still, he was a beloved pop artist. He was also a terrible businessman and never made much money for his work, refusing to copyright his own art. However, at this point in history he is a rather obscure figure in the art world, much like the guy who first did a painting of dogs playing poker.

Wain also appears to have been quite insane – or at the very least massively eccentric – for much of his life.

The “Electrical Life” part of the title refers to a deeply held (and honestly somewhat confusing) philosophy which Wain held that all beings – humans, and cats, and everything else – were just a channeling of electrical energy. He was even essentially right and rather prescient in many of his beliefs, but the bizarre ways that he – or at least the movie – explains them often makes him come off looking like a bit of a lunatic.

Benedict Cumberbatch does a very good job in portraying Wain – or at least as good as the source material will allow him. As a young man, he feels like he has escaped from a Monty Python sketch, all repressed British mannerisms, eccentric behavior and silly walks. As he gets older, he becomes nearly catatonic, beaten down by loss, mental illness and the cruel Victorian medical system.

According to this film, one of the two great losses in Louis Wain’s life was the death of his first cat, which feels a little off dramatically. I am saying that as a life-long cat lover who knows full well how vital cats are to life and how hard it is to say goodbye to them. I have loved cats completely and selflessly, which is a strong, elemental emotion, but not necessarily a cinematic one.

And, frankly, for a film about a man who is defined by his love of cats, while there are many cats around in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, they are mostly relegated to the background. Cats are endlessly fascinating and entertaining – just check out all the videos on the internet today. So, if they are going to make a movie about the love of cats, perhaps more of the time could have been spent on watching cats just be cats, rather than dwelling in the dark corners of Louis Wain’s family problems, his romantic problems, his financial problems and his mental problems.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain takes a slightly odd and ultimately rather tragic story and tells it fairly well. However, most audiences will probably walk out wondering why this was a story they needed to hear.

Jay S. Jacobs

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tigerfush · 3 years

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For now, though, there’s this seemingly unstoppable uphill career trajectory. Wood just wrapped on Living, with Nighy, her first lead film role, adapted from the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru, with a screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro. There’s another smaller role in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy. Wood also feels better about herself – she no longer stifles her emotions: “I cry at everything now. If I read a poem that moves me, I’m sobbing. It’s like this dam’s burst. I feel very connected and I’m not embarrassed.” Wood smiles: “I think that’s what life is: happy and sad, bittersweet. It’s everything all at once.”

#sex education #television #culture #television & radio #film #aimee lou wood #excited for season 3!

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nemesisbinxartifactseries · 4 years

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akultalkies · 2 years

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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain 2021 AkulTalkies.com

Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones, Aimee Lou Wood, Stacy Martin, Adeel Akhtar, Taika Waititi, Sharon Rooney, Hayley Squires

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ruthmedia2 · 2 years

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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (12A)

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (12A) Director: Will Sharpe Runtime: 110 minutes Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones, Sharon Rooney, Aimee Lou Wood, Hayley Squires, Stacy Martin, Phoebe Nicholls, Adeel Akhtar, Asim Chaudhry, Richard Ayoade, Julian Barratt, Sophia di Martino, Taika Waititi, Nick Cave, Olivia Coleman Synopsis: Louis Wain was many things during…

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fangirlnationmag · 3 years

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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain Comes To Amazon Video November 5th

The new film The Electrical Life of Louis Wain has a cast that’s already extraordinary. The film features Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones, Sharon Rooney, Aimee Lou Wood, Taika Waititi, Nick Cave, and Olivia Colman. Here’s the official synopsis: The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch), whose playful, sometimes even…

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ramascreen · 3 years

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THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN Teaser Poster And First Clip

Check out this teaser poster and first clip from THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN. Amazon Studios will release THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN in theaters October 22nd, 2021 and on Prime Video November 5th, 2021 Directed by Will Sharpe Written by Simon Stephenson Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Toby Jones, Sharon Rooney, Aimee Lou Wood, Taika Waititi, Olivia…

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detournementsmineurs · 2 years

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Aimee Lou Wood, Stacy Martin, Hayley Squires, Sharon Rooney et les participations de Taika Waititi et Nick Cave, ainsi que la voix-off d'Olivia Colman dans “La Vie Extraordinaire de Louis Wain (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain)” biopic de Will Sharpe - sur la vie du peintre de chats anthropomorphes Louis Wain (1860-1939) - février 2022.

#films #Biopic #peinture #hommage #Cumberbatch #Foy #Riseborough #Wood #Martin #Squires #Rooney #Waititi #Cave #Colman #Sharpe #Wain #Wells

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detournementsmineurs · 2 years

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Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough, Aimee Lou Wood, Stacy Martin, Hayley Squires, Sharon Rooney et les participations de Taika Waititi et Nick Cave, ainsi que la voix-off d'Olivia Colman dans “La Vie Extraordinaire de Louis Wain (The Electrical Life of Louis Wain)” biopic de Will Sharpe - sur la vie du peintre de chats anthropomorphes Louis Wain (1860-1939) - février 2022.

#films #style #ChatNoir #hommage #Cumberbatch #Foy #Riseborough #Wood #Martin #Squires #Rooney #Waititi #Cave #Colman #Wain #Sharpe

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