The Color of Time

– A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years...

Type:
Movie
Rating:
4.40 / 10
Duration:
One Hour and 13 Minutes
Release Year:
2012
The Color of Time (2012)

A poetic road trip through Pulitzer prize-winning CK Williams' life over the course of 40 years.

Story Timeline:
Producing Country:
USA
Filming Locations:
Release Date:

09 Dec 2014

Language:

English

MPAA Content-Rating:
R – Restricted

Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian. Contains some adult material. Parents are urged to learn more about the film before taking their young children with them.

Director:

Edna Luise Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Brooke Goldfinch, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Tine Thomasen, Virginia Urreiztieta, Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo

Writer:

Edna Luise Biesold, Sarah-Violet Bliss, Gabrielle Demeestere, Alexis Gambis, Shruti Ganguly, Brooke Goldfinch, Shripriya Mahesh, Pamela Romanowsky, Bruce Thierry Cheung, Tine Thomasen, Virginia Urreiztieta, C.K. Williams (book), Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo

Main Actors:

James Franco, Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Zach Braff

Plot:

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 can be turned into poetic expression: his loving relationship to his mother, his first sexual experiences as a teenager, his first love and the struggle to preserve a form of innocence and wonder, the illness and loss of a close friend, and finally his life together with Catherine.

Awards:

1 nomination.

Production:

Starz Digital Media

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
4.3/10
Rotten Tomatoes:
5%
Metacritic:
34%