This movie is set during WWI and takes place in India and at Trinity College in Cambridge. This biographical movie is very dramatic. This live action feature film is incredible! I fell in love with the main characters and enjoyed the true story.
The Man Who Knew Infinityīy Lainey Anderson, KIDS FIRST! Film Critic, age 14
This biographical movie is very dramatic.” See her full review below. comments, “This live action feature film is incredible! I fell in love with the main characters and enjoyed the true story. Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. The Man Who Knew Infinity opens in theaters April 29th.Based on the true story about an mathematician, unknown outside the academic community, it’s a story waiting to be told – almost a century after his death in 1920. Hardy recognises the originality and brilliance of Ramanujan's raw talent and despite the scepticism of his colleagues, undertakes bringing him to Cambridge so that his theories can be explored. Hardy (Jeremy Irons), an eminent British mathematics professor at Trinity College, Cambridge. Determined to pursue his passion despite rejection and derision from his peers, Ramanujan writes a letter to G. Srinavasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) is a 25-year-old shipping clerk and self-taught genius, who failed out of college due to his near-obsessive, solitary study of mathematics. Here's the official synopsis: Colonial India, 1913.
Even if this is the type of biopic that simply goes through the motions, Irons, Jones, and Fry aren't bad actors to go through the motions with. Brown hasn't directed a feature film since 2000's Ropewalk, but he wrote and directed this true story, which features a strong cast. Maybe The Man Who Knew Infinity won't be another by-the-numbers biopic, but the trailer doesn't help raise our expectations, despite the cast and true story.īut critics were mostly positive towards Matt Brown's drama. Why not take a more unconventional approach to stories about outsiders? The biopics that tend to standout the most these days are the ones we haven't seen 100 times already. You gotta hate seeing extraordinary figures depicted in ordinary bio movies, which we see happen almost every year. The Man Who Knew Infinity looks like a fairly conventional film, and some of the early reviews out of the Toronto International Film Festival claimed the biopic was too familiar.
This is pretty much what we expect from a trailer for an inspirational underdog tale: hope, triumph, moments of persecution, and, of course, the supportive father figure. Here's the The Man Who Knew Infinity trailer (via Indiewire): The inspirational tale, based on this trailer, definitely wears its heart on its sleeve. During World War I, Hardy took Ramanujan under his wing. Hardy (Irons), his smarts and ambition landed him a place at the school. After the self-taught young man wrote a letter to a respected professor at Trinity College, Cambridge, G.H. Watch The Man Who Knew Infinity trailer below. Dev Patel ( The Newsroom) stars in the biopic as Ramanujan, alongside Jeremy Irons, Stephen Fry, and Toby Jones. What's more exciting than mathematical theories? The Man Who Knew Infinity isn't so much about equations and theories, but the film does focus on one of 20th century's most notable mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan.