The Color of Time
Rating: 4.4/1192 Plot Summary:
The Color of Time is based on Pulitzer prize-winning poet CK Williams' collection of the same name. The film blends together adaptations of 11 of the poems to create a poetic road trip through CK William's life. The film takes us on a journey through several decades of American life from CK's childhood and adolescence in Detroit in the 1940s and 50s to the early 1980s: CK and his wife Catherine are married with their son Jed. CK prepares for a reading of 'Tar' in New York City, and spends his nights struggling to write new poems, haunted by memories of his past. As CK drives to his reading in New York City, he remembers central moments of his life: we come to experience and understand both his relationship to love and loss, and how he found his calling as a poet through the women in his life. The film takes us back and forth between past and present, punctuated by voice-over from CK Williams' poems, recreating the experience of memory and exploring how the fragments of one's man life …
Director: Edna Luise Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Gabrielle Demeestere
Running time: 1h 13min
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Release date: 9 December 2014 (USA)
Cast: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Zach Braff, Henry Hopper, Bruce Campbell, Demetrios Anastasiow, Giavani Cairo, Jamie DeKelaita, Kimberly Harsch, Jann Hight, Vince Jolivette, Gabriel Kahaian, Evan Kole
