Master movie about a master physician
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The story of the most brilliant and celebrated physicist of our time, Stephen Hawking, ‘The Theory of Everything’–adapted by Anthony McCarten from the memoir Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen by Jane Wilde Hawking– is now being screened at Empire Gold, Arcade Colombo.
Dealing with her relationship with her ex-husband, theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, his diagnosis of motor neuron disease, and his success in physics, the film drama won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama for Redmayne and Best Original Score while receiving two other nominations. It also received five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor for Redmayne and Best Actress for Jones.
Directed by James Marsh, the film stars Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones with Charlie Cox, Emily Watson, Simon McBurney, Christian McKay, and David Thewlis and it had its world premiere at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2014.
British biographical romantic drama film narrates the story of Hawking and Jane Wilde the arts student he fell in love with whilst studying at Cambridge in the 1960s. Little was expected from Stephen Hawking, a bright but shiftless student of cosmology, given just two years to live following the diagnosis of a fatal illness at 21 years of age. He became galvanised, however, by the love of fellow Cambridge student, Jane Wilde, and he went on to be called the successor to Einstein, as well as a husband and father to their three children. Over the course of their marriage as Stephen’s body collapsed and his academic renown soared, fault lines were exposed that tested the lineaments of their relationship and dramatically altered the course of both of their lives.