Words and Pictures PG-13
Is a man worth more than his words, a woman worth more than her pictures?
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 51 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: September 9, 2014
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: Lions Gate
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Clive Owen & Juliette Binoche | |
Performer: | Navid Negahban, Amy Brenneman & Bruce Davison | |
Directed by | Fred Schepisi | |
Edited by | Peter Honess | |
Screenwriting by | Gerald Di Pego | |
Composition by | Paul Grabowsky | |
Director of Photography: | Ian Baker |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
It is a thoughtful film about redemption and acceptance.
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Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
Rating: 3.5/5 --
Binoche's big throaty laugh is heard to appealing effect and Owen's performance has more depth to it than anything I've seen from him before.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Rating: 2.5/5 --
While it's not as sharply observed as one wishes it could have been, the film manages to be worthwhile for the excellent Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen.
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IONCINEMA.com
Rating: 0.5/4 --
Barely qualifies as a motion picture.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 2/4 --
Words and Pictures is an ambitious romancer but its missed opportunities leave this charming but trivial tale of artistic rivaling viewpoints not quite making the grade.
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Popoptiq
Rating: 3.5/5 --
It's old-fashioned, but no less stirring for that - especially as Schepisi has spent a lifetime practising what he preaches.
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The Age (Australia)
Watching Owen and Binoche do this dance leaves one emotionally breathless and wanting more. They are like fire and ice as each brings amazing nuance to their individual and collective performances.
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Behind The Lens
Product Description:
An English teacher and fallen literary star challenges an art teacher to a war of words versus images to determine which form carries the greatest meaning in this romantic comedy drama from director Fred Schepisi (IT RUNS IN THE FAMILY, THE EYE OF THE STORM). Jack Marcus (Clive Owen) is a prep-school English teacher who sees his students' obsession with social media as a literary and intellectual abyss. His alcoholism is slowly taking over his life as his estranged son drifts ever further away, and the school's once-proud literary magazine lapses into irrelevance. Meanwhile, art teacher and abstract painter Dina Delsanto (Juliette Binoche) wrestles with debilitating arthritis that has forced her to lay down her paintbrush indefinitely. Jack respects Dina and even flirts with her on occasion, but he has a cruel habit of riling her that leads to swelling tensions between the two teachers. As Jack's performance review draws near, he knows that his continued failure to engage his students could cost him his job. Out of Jack's desperation comes a flash of innovation, and he boldly issues a challenge to his rival in the visual arts: Convinced that a mere picture could never truly convey the emotion and nuance of the English language, Jack challenges Dina to create a painting that's as powerful as his own written words. Meanwhile, as the student body grows increasingly engaged in this vibrant creative conflict, love starts to blossom in the heat of battle.