The Color of Time

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The Color of Time
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Film poster
Directed by
Written by
Produced by
  • Edward Bass
  • Shruti Ganguly
  • Vince Jolivette
  • Victorino Noval
  • James Franco
  • Miles Levy
Starring
CinematographyPedro Gómez Millán
Bruce Thierry Cheung
Edited byJennifer Ruff
Music by Garth Neustadter
Daniel Wohl
Production
company
Distributed byStarz Digital Media
Release dates
Running time
72 minutes
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

The Color of Time (originally titled Tar) [1] is a 2012 American independent biographical drama film written and directed by twelve New York University film students whose teacher was James Franco. [2] The film stars James Franco (who also produced), Bruce Campbell, Mila Kunis, Jessica Chastain, Zach Braff, and Henry Hopper.

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It premiered on November 16, 2012 at the Rome Film Festival. The film was theatrically released in the United Kingdom on September 8, 2014, under the title Forever Love. [3] It was theatrically released in the United States on December 12, 2014. [4]

Plot

The different parts of Pulitzer Prize winner C.K. Williams' life told through his poems. Flashbacks of his childhood, his teens, college years, to when he meets and marries his wife, Catherine (Kunis) and the birth of his children and parenthood. The film is narrated by different versions of Williams (Franco, Hopper, March, Unger), depicting the different aspects of Williams through the years. [2]

Cast

Reception

On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 5% based on 21 reviews, with an average rating of 3.70/10. [6] Metacritic gives the film a weighted average score of 34 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews". [7]

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References

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