Wednesday, April 8, 2015

The Color of Time 2012


The Color of Time


     This film is based on a collection of poems by CK Williams that won a Pulitzer Prize.  There are eleven poems and they document a road trip through the life CK’s life.  He spent his childhood and teen years in Detroit in the 1940’s and 1950’s.  CK marries Catherine and they have a son, Jed.  While driving to a reading in New York City, CK remembers the central moments of his life.  He struggles to write new poems and this film takes us back and forth from the past to the present.
     It’s the back and forth of this film that I don’t like.  I think it’s jarring to see a scene half way into the movie and then repeated much later again?  There is so much vagueness with no answers about any of the why of anything?  Everything has an implied meaning but never a real meaning?   1 ½* (I really didn’t like this movie)

73 min, Bio directed by Edna Luise Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss with James Franco, Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Zach Braff, Henry Hopper, Bruce Campbell.

Note:  Imdb 4.9 out of 10, 6% critic 15% audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 1*.
Special Note:  There are twelve co-directors and co-writers for this film?








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