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Also Known As: Une merveilleuse histoire du temps |
| Year of first release: 2014 |
| Director: James Marsch |
| Actors: Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones |
| Country: GB |
| Genre: Drama, Romance |
| Conditions of visioning: 14.01.2015, Schauburg, English version with German subtitles |
| Synopsis: Stephen Hawking (Redmayne), a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, is given just
two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21
years of age. He became galvanized, however, by the love of fellow
Cambridge student, Jane Wilde (Jones), as well as a husband and father to their three children.
Over the course of their marriage as Stephen's body collapsed and his
academic renown soared, fault lines were exposed that tested the
lineaments of their relationship and dramatically altered the course of
both of their lives. |
Review: The story is not only a biography of the cosmologist Hawking but rather a romance of a physics student getting strongly handicaped with a very Christian and convinced women. For this the acting of Jones is excellent. We see in her face and eyes how strong she is convinced to overcome the illness of her lover. We see also her moments of weakness or of doubt in front of his illness. In that sense it is a kind of Love story.
Because I admire Hawking to have brought cosmology to the large public (read A brief history of time), it was important to me to watch this movie. And I do not regret. It brings this kind of physicists that many people see as alien back to the level of human being. |
Rating: 6 /10
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Remembering your review and interested by the topic as well, I watched the movie on 17.10.2017 in VOD on a 40" screen. The actors are good indeed, in particular Felicity Jones much more at ease than in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. I also liked the small role given to Charlie 'Daredevil' Cox. Eddie Redmayne I have only briefly seen as lead role in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, he overacts a little but plays a good Stephen Hawking to me.
ReplyDeleteThe story is indeed much more focused on Love than Science, although the theories by the genius scientist are used to outline his personality. I was glad that the movie didn't forget to include a couple of wits then man is known for.
My rating would be the same: 6/10.