Review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021) by Jessica Kiang for Los Angeles Times — 21 Oct 2021
Tottering unsteadily between mining Wain’s vast repertoire of eccentricities for comedy and slathering them in pathos, the movie winds up so busily whimsical it forgets to actually be about anything.
If you don’t know who Louis Wain was before you see it, you’ll only be fractionally more illuminated, and possibly a good deal more irritated, after.
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This review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021) was written by Jessica Kiang and published by Los Angeles Times on 21 October 2021.
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain has generally received positive reviews.
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