Directed by:
Jon AmielScreenplay:
John ColleeCinematography:
Jess HallComposer:
Christopher YoungCast:
Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Martha West, Guy Henry, Jeremy Northam, Benedict Cumberbatch, Toby Jones, Bill Paterson, Christopher Dunkin (more)Plots(1)
Director Jon Amiel's biopic explores the crisis of faith suffered by evolutionary scientist Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany). About to publish the book that would question God's role in creation, Darwin is forced to come to terms with how it will affect his deeply religious wife, Emma (Jennifer Connelly). In addition to his concerns about Emma, the worsening ill health of his beloved daughter Annie soon leads Darwin into a reassessment of his life's work, as he begins to fully realise the impact his theory will have on society. (Icon Home Entertainment)
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This isn’t primarily (or even secondarily) about the emergence of “Origin of the Species", nor about Darwin or the Theory of Evolution as such. Primarily, it is a well-acted, bittersweet drama and only afterwards what I said above. At the beginning inventive (“fairytale" story-telling to the daughter, the cycle of life in the grass behind the house) and powerful theme, but it changes direction all too soon and begins to run on one self-pitying spot. P.S.: Paul "Stephen Maturin" Bettany for the role of Darwin was a great choice, augmented further by casting of the wife.
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I didn’t expect this with CREATION, but I don’t have anything bad to say about the movie. Great direction, an excellent cast (Jennifer Connelly, Paul Bettany and that little girl too) a beautifully captured story about a family, love, losses and about a life strung between science and faith. All this tinged by touching background music by Christopher Young.
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