Kenneth Branagh and Helena Bonham Carter are this kind of strikingly appealing film couple endowed with such a good amount of wit, skill and beauty that it is very nearly amusing to see them playing a couple of scruffy outcasts in love in “The Theory of Flight.”
Amusing, not necessarily offputting. The film by which Carter plays a lady with Lou Gehrig’s condition and Branagh plays her attendant that is dysfunctional may like a sympathy getting actors’ stunt. But it is a real work of love because of its co movie stars: a budget that is low chancy task they demonstrably desired to do for in accordance with one another. Continue reading “Because the movie stars hit sparks, “Theory” lumbers under its over obvious journey metaphor.”