The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

2021 111 min ★ 6.9 Drama, History, Comedy

The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.

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Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch

Louis Wain

Claire Foy

Emily Wain

Andrea Riseborough

Caroline Wain

Toby Jones

Sir William Ingram

Sharon Rooney

Josephine Wain

Aimee Lou Wood

Claire Wain

Hayley Squires

Marie Wain

Stacy Martin

Felicie Wain

Phoebe Nicholls

Mrs Wain

Adeel Akhtar

Dan Rider

Details

Director

Will Sharpe

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

StudioCanal UK, Shoebox Films, Film4 Productions, SunnyMarch

Reviews

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Giovanni

December 9, 2021

★ 9/10

**Full Analysis at SpotaMovie.com** - **Intro** - The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is inspiring and offers us important lessons to learn for our lives. It's elegant, poetic and romantic. A must-watch. - **The Story** - The movie tells us the true story of the eccentric artist Louis Wain. We are in the early 1900s, and Wain is a gifted man who can paint and draw so quickly to leave us surprised by...

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r96sk

January 14, 2022

★ 7/10

Flew by, did <em>'The Electrical Life of Louis Wain'</em>. It's a well paced film that holds solid emotion to it, while it's nicely acted by the likes of Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy. I dig the costumes/set designs too. It also gets bonus points for cats, because... cats. It's not a perfect film, for example the humour is quite off, but it's definitely an interesting watch. I knew nothin...