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- 2014
- R
- Anchor Bay Entertainment
- 1 h 13 m
- 2014
- R
- Anchor Bay Entertainment
- 1 h 13 m
Summary Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams (James Franco) has a beautiful, adoring wife (Mila Kunis) and a young son. But as he prepares for a reading in New York City and struggles to create new work, he is haunted by memories of his past—from his first sexual encounter to a later tragic loss.
- 2014
- R
- Anchor Bay Entertainment
- 1 h 13 m
- 2014
- R
- Anchor Bay Entertainment
- 1 h 13 m
The Color of Time
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Summary Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams (James Franco) has a beautiful, adoring wife (Mila Kunis) and a young son. But as he prepares for a reading in New York City and struggles to create new work, he is haunted by memories of his past—from his first sexual encounter to a later tragic loss.
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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67% Mixed
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33% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 12 Critic Reviews
34
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
67% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
33% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
An irreproachably tasteful, easily digestible but an unsurprising, undemanding watch.
The better moments of Color Of Time make use of the ringer cast Franco was able to assemble, however momentarily.
If The Tree of Life was a contemplation of the universal mysteries and verities of life, The Color of Time is an hour spent scrolling through a stranger's family album.
Franco himself is ponderous playing Williams, which tends to overwhelm everything. A cool concept, and A for effort.
The tone is delicate and vaporous, more attuned to mood and melancholy than anything resembling a conventional narrative. And despite the ambition on display, the film feels awfully slight, like a dream forgotten immediately upon waking. In its admirable but muddled attempt to fuse pure poetry and pure cinema, it ends up doing justice to neither.
Franco is a fine reader, but ultimately the film adds little more than his handsome face and trite confessional origins to Williams's experiential vernacular. When the words are so direct, powerful, and inviting, who needs Franco's books on video?
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Awards
Rome Film Fest
• 1 Nomination
