![]() The direction is run of the mill, the music’s a bore, and the story doesn’t go anywhere too surprising. If what you need from this film is Dev Patel sprinting through main quad at least once with a sheaf of papers clutched in his fist, consider yourself in resolutely safe hands. He’s literally crowned by a halo of sunlight at one point – the star of his own hagiography and recipient of endless great PR from all those dons, like the unfailingly reasonable John Littlewood (Toby Jones). It actually has the makings of a touching performance, but Brown’s film can’t help but sanctify Ramanujan to a needless and damaging degree. ![]() That said, his very lightweight-ness gives him purchase on this role – coming across as overawed by all the marble busts and gowns and rival egos, once he’s moved to Cambridge, is rather a natural mode for him to stake out. Patel is a difficult actor to have complete faith in, and he does way too much clenching of his jaw in suppressed indignation, welling eyes darting left and right as he absorbs the latest blow. Every 10 minutes or so, another supporting player gets wheeled on to dent his confidence with ethnic slurs or scoff at the very idea of his so-called brilliance. Hardy, a confirmed bachelor, even went so far as to call their collaboration “the one romantic incident in my life”.īrown’s script, itching for conflict, plays up the institutional racism of other Trinity College fellows unwilling to credit the originality of Ramanujan’s proofs, and generally raining on his parade. In time, the working relationship between Hardy and Ramanujan, which gives first-time writer-director Matthew Brown his dramatic core, became hugely important to both of them. Self-taught but unemployed and virtually living rough in Madras, he reached out, via India-based civil engineer Sir Francis Spring (a dry then welcoming three-minute cameo from Stephen Fry) to Cambridge theorist GH Hardy (Jeremy Irons), who initially suspected a prank: who was this no-name Indian who claimed he could “give meaning to negative values of the gamma function”, anyway? Knuckling down to a considerably more rigorous intellectual challenge than he faced in Slumdog Millionaire, Patel plays the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, whose research in the field of number theory took English academe by storm around the time of the First World War. The Man Who Knew Infinity is practically the same formula scribbled on a blackboard, a true story brimming with noble intentions to the point where you feel guilty resisting it. ![]() It’s not the most immediately enticing hook for a prestige drama, whether or not The Imitation Game has managed to pique anyone’s interest in tweedy wartime biopics about troubled maths geniuses. Sophie Hunter was elegance personified in her Asian inspired red Gucci dress styled with Gucci platforms.Dev Patel, solving equations. While I’m curious with regards to how Benedict Cumberbatch would have fared had he decided to go with the flow at this event. ![]() Paak and Alessandro Michele’s Gucci are a match made in retro fashion heaven.Ĭorduroy flares aren’t easy, but the rapper nailed this look from head-to-toe. I perhaps would’ve been onboard had this not been such an oversized fit.Īnderson. I will give him an A for effort, even if the colour combo isn’t really working for me here. But he wanted to be in the mix so he opted for a colourful Gucci look. He was unlikely to make don those feather forearms. We have to give credit where credit is due to Jake Gyllenhaal. Kodi Smit-McPhee made it a trio of feather forearmed Gucci looks on this red carpet wearing a polka dot suit which was bold enough, but Alessandro Michele loves to go that one step further. …and Lil Nas X who opted for the yellow monogram Gucci look which was first worn by Kylie Minogue.Įven with the bold hue, and feathers, this still feels tame for the flamboyant singer.įirst Dua Lipa, and now Lil Nas X with his rings. If there’s anyone who can make feather sleeves work, it’s Jared Leto. Unlike Lady Gaga, I am expecting nothing but Gucci from Jared Leto for the ‘House of Gucci’ promo tour.Īnd if this white Gucci suit is a taster of what we can expect, I’m so ready and here for it. Much like the women, there were a lot of guys wearing Gucci at the 2021 LACMA Art+Film Gala on Saturday (November 6) in California. NovemMenswear 2021 LACMA Art+Film Gala Red Carpet Menswear Roundup Posted by Catherine Kallon Comments
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