Electrical Life of Louis Wain, The

[Opens Oct. 22 in theaters and Nov. 5 on Amazon Prime Video.] Olivia Colman narrates Will Sharpe's captivating, poignant, factually based, wit-punctuated, well-acted, moving, melancholy, star-studded (Toby Jones, Taika Waititi, Andrea Riseborough, Nick Cave, Sharon Rooney, Olivier Richters, Sophia Di Martino, Richard Ayoade, Jamie Demetriou, Hayley Squires, Stacy Martin, Aimee Lou Wood, Phoebe Nicholls, Adeel Akhtar, Asim Chaudhry, Julian Barratt, and Sophia di Martino), 111-minute biographical film highlighted by amazing cinematography and chronicles the slow mental collapse of eccentric, schizophrenia-plagued, feline-loving British artist Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch), who cares for five sisters and his mother (Phoebe Nicholls), found love with the supportive governess (Claire Foy) and became world famous for his psychedelic, anthropomorphic cat drawings and paintings in Victorian England from 1881 through 1930.
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