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Broken Tower (The)

Country: USA, Language: English, 90 mins

  • Director: James Franco
  • Writer: James Franco; Paul Mariani
  • Producer: Caroline Aragon; Nicolás Celis

CGiii Comment

A film as difficult (i.e. inaccessible) as Crane's poetry.
 
Hart Crane...who?!? Hailed as a poet for poets - i.e. strictly for the pseudos.
 
The film has no fluidity, the camera-work is giddily erratic, the editing is brutal, the episodic style...unengaging.
 
Like Howl...Franco reads and drinks too much...Crane comes over as a belligerent drunk...rather than a tortured soul.
 
This film does absolutely nothing to provoke interest, appreciation or admiration for Crane and/or his work - it does succeed in boring the pants off of everyone who manages to stay awake until the rather anti-climactic end.

A bore. A chore.


Trailer...

 

The(ir) Blurb...

A look at the dreams, unapologetic love of men , manic highs and depressive, death-haunted lows of early 20th century rebellious, self-destructive visionary poet Hart Crane from his early years as the son of a wealthy Cleveland businessman through his sojourns in New York, Cuba and Paris.

Cast & Characters

James Franco as Hart Crane;
Michael Shannon as Emile;
Stacey Miller as Peggy Cowley;
Vince Jolivette;
Betsy Franco as Grace Crane;
Dave Franco as Young Hart Crane;
David Rothstadt as Poetry Reading Attendant;
David Gerson as Drunken cafe attendant;
Sean Patrick Murray as Movie Theater Attendant;
Gary Abrams as Angry Boxing Fan