2019 · history · drama · mystery
The Professor and the Madman
Directed by Farhad Safinia2h 4m2019
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Our read: The Professor and the Madman (2019) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded history · drama · mystery entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured history / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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