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- 2015
- Unrated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
- 2015
- Unrated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
Summary Based on true events, John Malcolm Brinnin (Elijah Wood), an aspiring poet in 1950s New York, has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell-raising hero, Dylan Thomas (Celyn Jones).
Directed By: Andy Goddard
Written By: Celyn Jones, Andy Goddard
- 2015
- Unrated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
- 2015
- Unrated
- Strand Releasing
- 1 h 37 m
Set Fire to the Stars
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Summary Based on true events, John Malcolm Brinnin (Elijah Wood), an aspiring poet in 1950s New York, has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell-raising hero, Dylan Thomas (Celyn Jones).
Directed By: Andy Goddard
Written By: Celyn Jones, Andy Goddard
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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21% Positive
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3 Reviews
71% Mixed
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7% Negative
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1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 Critic Reviews
49
21% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
71% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
7% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Gorgeous, evocative and well performed.
At least it doesn't make the biopic mistake of attempting to check off every moment of a man's life over the course of a few hours' worth of running time.
Its appreciation of Thomas’ work remains superficial, while the polished filmmaking never quite finds its own poetry.
It’s a nice enough, pleasant enough film with a couple solid performances. But when you’re making a movie about a man as unique, profound, and complex as Dylan Thomas, and you have nothing to say about him, you don’t have much of a movie.
A harrowing but tedious chronicle of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’ time in America in the 1950s.
High art swings sort of low in this watchable but thematically repetitive drama.
An exercise in tasteful pointlessness, shot in flat black and white and scored (by Gruff Rhys, of all people) with tinkling piano and sawing strings that evoke nothing so much as an aura of cut-rate class.
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Production Company
Mad As Birds,
Masnomis
Release Date Jun 12, 2015
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating Unrated
Tagline A week with Dylan Thomas.
Website
http://www.madasbirdsfilms.com/
Awards
BAFTA Awards, Wales
• 3 Wins & 8 Nominations
Unrestricted View Film Festival
• 4 Wins & 4 Nominations
Edinburgh International Film Festival
• 2 Nominations
