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Jul 23, 2018
A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and Thomas Wolfe. I like movies which are about the creative (production) process and this one is about literary figures and the compromises made to their loved ones for the sake of work and it's artistic merits. The closeness which Thomas Wolfe/Jude Law has to develop to get Maxwell Perkin's/Colin Firth's attention between his own family, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and even Wolfe's loved one Aline Bernstein (a set and costume designer played by Nicole Kidman) -- Wolfe isn't always as empathetic to others as he could be even after the exhaustive editing process done for 'Of time and the river'. The meaning of ~'writing autobiographically is the only way to write'..I wonder if it could mean something different in an epoch in which narrative content is much more accessible, not the least with audiobooks `_` .