The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is also disarmingly tender, blessed with a deep affectation for its subject that feels fuller and more romantic in its nature than straightforward respect.

Louis is a funny, complicated character, and while the movie could have expanded its horizons (particularly in view of the changes roiling the art world), Cumberbatch fills in this expressionistic portrait exquisitely.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is so utterly charming and buoyant that it makes even the frustrating aspects of the film forgivable.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is often quite charming and sweet. But there's an undercurrent of sadness running through the entire affair, and even when the film tries to convince us that there were good times among the bad, it's hard not to think how awful life must have been for several characters here.

The distinctive charms of Wain’s aesthetic certainly come over, especially daubed across the lovely end credits, by which time this jumpy curio, with almost palpable relief, has laid itself to rest.

You can certainly respect Sharpe for taking a big swing in this regard, but he can’t bring the proceedings back to earth when the audience needs some sort of emotional investment. This also ends up hampering Cumberbatch, who is giving one of the most committed performances of his life, but only to find it buried under all of the film’s extracurricular aspects.

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain tells its story with sympathy, but too many quirks and try-hard flourishes. In the welter and spin of tics, voice-overs, set pieces, images, flashbacks and dream states, the man himself gets as lost as a kitten in the rain.

The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain is a beautiful looking film that amazingly written and perform, it's an amazing true story film that captured exactly the same like what Louis Wain himself do, as a painter, the movie looks gorgeously shot and sometimes the shot is really like a real beautiful painting, it's so gorgeous, Benedict Cumberbatch performance is simply one of his best, the score was beautiful, and despite one cons of the film that i have which there is some quite a lot of scene in the film that feels slow but not bad, the movie overall is still great.

Quite a surreal, moving, charming movie. The two leads are well matched and other than the big age gap between Louis and his wife (in real life) they stuck to historical facts quite doggedly. Quite unlike anything I've seen before and it was unpredictable as well.

A dedicated performance by Benedict Cumberbatch fails to elevate this uneven drama that desperately seeks a direction. The contrived tone that pervades most of its running time makes me wonder if this was the approach intended by its makers, or if they simply never sought to give the material more seriousness. Either way the mix is not the most adequate, but at least the work of the cast is enough to keep the rest of the story from getting lost in oblivion so easily. However, I doubt this film will be mentioned again in the future when talking about them and their work.

Amazing film and amazing acting - cried throughout. Benedict plays this role incredibly.

Pretentious, uneven, full of artifice. The usual historically inaccurate stunt-casting is also on tiresome and predictable display. By the time the Ridley Scott stop-motion blur kicks in about 1hr32m in you’ll start wishing for more substance over the padding that bloats the ponderous runtime.