Toronto Film Review: ‘Words and Pictures’boos

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The pen is mightier than the sword, but if a picture is worth thousands of words, who will win a duel? The plight of the dialectical "word and image setting stage," a romantic comedy highbrow, pit Clive Owen's eccentric English teacher for juliette binoche disabled artists the hearts and minds of students in the fight - and, of course, the other party. The turf wars between passion and reason, wisdom and intimate relationship, is old hat, plough similar sparkling effect of the ground, like the movie "roxane" and "six degrees of separation" (or even Einstein nonsense Fred SCHEPISI, director of the "IQ"). But this time go out, the two words and pictures exceptionally atony, mainly due to Gerald DiPego literacy, but hopelessly affectation, lack of SCHEPISI ordinary script and the direction of the unit. Toronto pickup roadside attractions just determine bluehairs shall implement and art film.
In a broad sense, Owen and binoche characters, there may be personified double-sided kandinsky canvas occupies the central metaphor bass, "six degrees" : on the one hand, formal rigorous geometric patterns, another kind of freedom in the form of abstract. Looking for like sloppy, disheveled scholars association include Michael Douglas character "miracle boy" and Michael caine "education one of the most recent members of rita," Owen play jack marcus, a famous poet, who hasn't written a word, now resigned to the elite education next generation Croyden New England prep school. Then, by, binoche: Diana Delasanto (), was born in Italy the representation of abstract painter, rheumatoid arthritis, added to the latest Croyden teachers.

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She is commonly known as "icicle", Owen's colleague (Bruce Davidson, mood confirmed Diana, she is introduced for the students in his class "don't kind of teacher you will come back to visit, when you are grown up, a box of chocolate, and hallmark CARDS." Well, maybe not, but the hallmark emotions - greeting CARDS and "hall of fame" TV movie varieties - is "text and picture" rarely rise.
DiPego, established big studio nationalities (his works including John travolta "phenomenon"), to do more things here, so much without words, because of the double series of rawness pseudo intellectual ideas. Owen lecturing his class formation, therefore, have the ability to original image (quoted from updike, McEwan, etc.) And binoche told her paintings can express feelings, lie beyond words. In most of this type of image contrast, the student is still a bit bemused, unspeakable quality. Owen even refer to them as "robot". Added to these two characters "hate distress - her rheumatoid arthritis, his bottle of writer's block has a special liking - you have a movie, a symbol of frame excess baggage charge some pretty shocking. (the article even alienated son to guide the university age.)
SCHEPISI and his capable of cast iron do, they can use the material, and it also binoche and Owen courtship, efforts to Tracy - Audrey Hepburn, but in the end, Hanks Ryan closer together some fleeting glamour. Have only so much you can do, though, the movie, forcing Owen a blank computer screen before waiting for a call poetry Muse to sit, and binoche stick around, fighting her own body to her across the canvas coated with a layer of thick paint. (painting, in fact, created their own star, isn't it all.)
In the aspect of the film, the film is almost all of the calls and a few memorable images. Despite the long-term SCHEPISI DP Ian baker, widescreen hd lens has a flat, the appearance of the fade, although veterinary production designer Patrizia von brandon Mr Because has done a fine job ready to appoint PIC and school environment (shoot multiplication Maine in vancouver).