After years of writing attempts and a mammoth rejection file, what would you do if … you stumbled across an old sachet in an antique store, inside it was a hand typed dog-eared manuscript, and on reading the story you realise you’ve uncover the next Harry Potter or 50 Shades of Grey?
Okay, let’s say you decide the work has to be seen.
What if when you show it to a few key people, including your wife who’s been privy to all your rejection letters, they assume you’re the author and shower you with praise?
What then?
This is the journey ahead for Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper) in THE WORDS, a story about love, the impact of the choices we make, and the cost of success.
First time directors Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal drive the film through many layers of mystery, far more than the simple title suggests …
The drama switches between a great romance set in post war Paris, and modern day New York where Rory lives with his wife Dora (Zoe Saldana), and where Clayton Hammond (Denise Quaid) is a highly successful author doing a book reading. It’s also where we see an old man (Jeremy Irons) loitering … a man who later makes himself known to Rory in Central Park.
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Photo by Jonathan Wenk
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THE WORDS is yet another one of those movies where you can’t say too much or you’ll away the ending. Suffice to say Cooper does an excellent job conveying the inner turmoil behind Rory’s choices, it’s great to see Denise Quaid on screen again and Jeremy Irons is wonderful as the old man.
A wise person once told me you’re not a real writer until you’re the proud owner of a large rejection file. THE WORDS is definitely one for the writers, or would be writers amongst us, especially those all too familiar with the dreaded rejection letter. It’s also a movie for lovers of romance, and intrigue. Like Arbitrage, the film takes you down a number of twists, and leaves you pondering, what you’d do in the same situation?
Now showing
Stars: Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde and Zoe Saldana.
Director: Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal
96 minutes
Becker Film Group
