2016 · history · drama
Genius
Directed by Michael Grandage1h 44m2016
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary greats as Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. When a sprawling, chaotic 1,000-page manuscript by an unknown writer falls into his hands, Perkins is convinced he has discovered a literary genius.
Our read: Genius (2016) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded history · drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, steady, gentle history / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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