While the male perspectives were written by Damon and Ben Affleck, the scenes that peer into Marguerite’s soul were scripted by Nicole Holofcener, who emphasizes the tension between monstrous masculine delusions and brutal feminine realities. Each of the film’s three acts is filmed from the perspective of one character-first Marguerite’s husband, Sir Jean de Carrouges (Matt Damon), then Le Gris, then Marguerite. That’s the premise of The Last Duel, director Ridley Scott’s thunderous cinematic portrait of Marguerite de Carrouges (Jodie Comer), a real-life noblewoman who accused Jacques Le Gris (Adam Driver), a squire and knight, of sexually assaulting her. By finding sweet silliness in everyday life, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain proves her right. When he tells her she makes the world beautiful, she simply tells him that the world is already beautiful. Yet the gleam of Louis and Emily’s love brightens the movie long after she’s gone. These fantastical touches are not standard biopic fare, but the film’s last half reveals the fragility of its decadeslong narrative-it’s so anxious to get to Wain’s death that it doesn’t take enough time to savor his life. When he looks at people, their heads sprout fur and whiskers, and when he looks at cats, they talk to him via subtitles. When she dies of breast cancer, Wain becomes such a cat fanatic that his mind starts to reshape the world to his liking. The film begins with an elderly Wain withering in an asylum, but it swiftly skips back to his marriage to Emily Richardson-Wain (Claire Foy), a fellow cat lover. With manic charm and moving grace, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain welcomes us into the psychedelic world of Wain (Cumberbatch), a real-life English artist who brought whimsy and wonderment to the Victorian era with his feline-filled drawings and paintings.
*** Fans of cats and Benedict Cumberbatch, get ready to purr.
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain By WW Contributors Novemat 10:00 pm PDT
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