MaryAnn’s quick take… In the moment of #MeToo and #TimesUp, this tale of the relationship between an older male professor and his young female student is howlingly out of step and outrageously tone deaf. And that’s on top of its tedious clichés. I’m “biast” (pro): love Stanley Tucci
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
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Movies can take years to make, so it’s impossible to know into what sort of cultural zeitgeist the finished project will ultimately be released. But a special booby prize must go to Submission for getting it so opposite-world, upside-down wrong. I means, sure, this film would have been offensive when it debuted at the Los Angeles Film Festival last June, but since then we’ve had Harvey Weinstein,...
I’m “biast” (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto) women’s participation in this film
(learn more about this)
Movies can take years to make, so it’s impossible to know into what sort of cultural zeitgeist the finished project will ultimately be released. But a special booby prize must go to Submission for getting it so opposite-world, upside-down wrong. I means, sure, this film would have been offensive when it debuted at the Los Angeles Film Festival last June, but since then we’ve had Harvey Weinstein,...
- 3/14/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Stanley Tucci and Addison Timlin, in Submission. Photo courtesy of Great Point Media/Paladin (c)
Writer/director Richard Levine’s film Submission is being promoted as a modern updating of the novel “The Blue Angel.” The book was famously adapted into a 1930 film The Blue Angel by director Josef von Sternberg, a film which made Marlene Dietrich an international star.
In the Dietrich film, a straight-laced, aging professor becomes enamored with a beautiful young singer (Dietrich) in a local nightclub called the Blue Angel. The professor’s obsession with the singer has disastrous results, particularly for him. This forbidden passion is particularly risky for a man expected to set a moral example for his pupils, so he tries to keep it hidden lest he lose his livelihood and reputation, but he is under a compulsion he can’t resist.
In this updated version, the man is still a professor but...
Writer/director Richard Levine’s film Submission is being promoted as a modern updating of the novel “The Blue Angel.” The book was famously adapted into a 1930 film The Blue Angel by director Josef von Sternberg, a film which made Marlene Dietrich an international star.
In the Dietrich film, a straight-laced, aging professor becomes enamored with a beautiful young singer (Dietrich) in a local nightclub called the Blue Angel. The professor’s obsession with the singer has disastrous results, particularly for him. This forbidden passion is particularly risky for a man expected to set a moral example for his pupils, so he tries to keep it hidden lest he lose his livelihood and reputation, but he is under a compulsion he can’t resist.
In this updated version, the man is still a professor but...
- 3/9/2018
- by Cate Marquis
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Ted Swenson (Stanley Tucci) is a living cliché, and he knows it. A middle-aged writer with one “moderately successful book under my belt” (his words, via Tucci’s jaunty voiceover), Ted thought that a teaching job at a Vermont liberal arts college would be the perfect short-term gig while he penned his second novel. Ten years later, tenure is the only thing Ted has to show for his time.
At least, that’s how he feels about it — a cushy job, a full head of hair, and a healthy marriage (to Kyra Sedgwick) don’t mean a damn thing to an author who can’t make good on the promise of their own potential. He used to want his class to fall in love with him; now he just stares at the clock and hopes to wait out the hour. “When do I get more?” Ted asks one of his students,...
At least, that’s how he feels about it — a cushy job, a full head of hair, and a healthy marriage (to Kyra Sedgwick) don’t mean a damn thing to an author who can’t make good on the promise of their own potential. He used to want his class to fall in love with him; now he just stares at the clock and hopes to wait out the hour. “When do I get more?” Ted asks one of his students,...
- 3/5/2018
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
A film about a male teacher getting it on with his female student ought to touch a nerve in the era of #MeToo. But Submission – despite valiant performances from Stanley Tucci and Addison Timlin as the parties involved – lacks the spark it needs to spring to life.
Tucci plays Ted Swenson, a prof who teaches creative writing at a second-rate New England college and fills classrooms on the success fumes from his acclaimed first book, concerning his father's fatal decision to light himself on fire to protest the war in Vietnam.
Tucci plays Ted Swenson, a prof who teaches creative writing at a second-rate New England college and fills classrooms on the success fumes from his acclaimed first book, concerning his father's fatal decision to light himself on fire to protest the war in Vietnam.
- 3/2/2018
- Rollingstone.com
Francine Prose on Stanley Tucci, Kyra Sedgwick, Addison Timlin, Jessica Hecht, Janeane Garofalo, Peter Gallagher, and Ritchie Coster in Submission: "I think the casting is extraordinary." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
Based on Francine Prose's 2000 novel Blue Angel, inspired by Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film Der Blaue Engel, adapted from Heinrich Mann's book Professor Unrat from 1905, Submission links present with past. If Angela Argo in Richard Levine's Submission were to set out to do what Marlene Dietrich's Lola Lola did to Emil Jannings' Professor Immanuel Rath, what would that look like in the second decade of the 21st century?
Ted Swenson (Stanley Tucci) with his student Angela (Addison Timlin)
Submission with cinematography by Hillary Spera (Reed Morano's Meadowland) tells the wayward tale of Ted Swenson (Stanley Tucci), a professor who teaches creative writing at a small Vermont college. Once a celebrated author, he now has trouble putting anything creative on paper himself,...
Based on Francine Prose's 2000 novel Blue Angel, inspired by Josef von Sternberg's 1930 film Der Blaue Engel, adapted from Heinrich Mann's book Professor Unrat from 1905, Submission links present with past. If Angela Argo in Richard Levine's Submission were to set out to do what Marlene Dietrich's Lola Lola did to Emil Jannings' Professor Immanuel Rath, what would that look like in the second decade of the 21st century?
Ted Swenson (Stanley Tucci) with his student Angela (Addison Timlin)
Submission with cinematography by Hillary Spera (Reed Morano's Meadowland) tells the wayward tale of Ted Swenson (Stanley Tucci), a professor who teaches creative writing at a small Vermont college. Once a celebrated author, he now has trouble putting anything creative on paper himself,...
- 3/1/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sneak Peek footage from writer/director Richard Levine's 'obsessive love' feature "Submission", based on the novel "Blue Angel" by Francine Prose, starring Stanley Tucci, Kyra Sedgwick and Janeane Garofalo:
"...'Ted Swenson' (Tucci) is a once-acclaimed author who teaches writing at a small liberal arts college. Though his marriage to 'Sherrie' (Sedgwick) is comfortable...
"...he finds himself drowning in discontent with smug colleagues and an endless stream of students who are as untalented as they are unteachable.
"But when a new pupil, 'Angela Argo' (Addison Timlin), shows promise, Ted focuses on nurturing her career and it becomes unclear whether Ted is predator or prey and Angela is victim or victimizer..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Submission"...
"...'Ted Swenson' (Tucci) is a once-acclaimed author who teaches writing at a small liberal arts college. Though his marriage to 'Sherrie' (Sedgwick) is comfortable...
"...he finds himself drowning in discontent with smug colleagues and an endless stream of students who are as untalented as they are unteachable.
"But when a new pupil, 'Angela Argo' (Addison Timlin), shows promise, Ted focuses on nurturing her career and it becomes unclear whether Ted is predator or prey and Angela is victim or victimizer..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Submission"...
- 2/4/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Kayti Burt Feb 2, 2018
Stanley Tucci is headlining Seduction, a film about a college professor and his student. Here's the first trailer...
The first trailer for Submission, a film about a male college professor and his younger, female student, has just hit the web.
Stanley Tucci stars alongside Addison Timlin, Kyra Sedgwick, Janeane Garofalo, and Peter Gallagher in a story that follows Ted Swenson (Tucci), a writer and professor at a small liberal arts college. When one of his creative writing students, Angelo Argo (Timlin), begins to write a story about a young woman embarking on a sexual relationship with her professor, the lines between their relationship begins to blur.
Video of Submission Starring Stanley Tucci - Trailer
In many ways, this seems like a timely film, but from the looks of the trailer, which asks the question who is the victim and who is the victimizer in this situation, it...
Stanley Tucci is headlining Seduction, a film about a college professor and his student. Here's the first trailer...
The first trailer for Submission, a film about a male college professor and his younger, female student, has just hit the web.
Stanley Tucci stars alongside Addison Timlin, Kyra Sedgwick, Janeane Garofalo, and Peter Gallagher in a story that follows Ted Swenson (Tucci), a writer and professor at a small liberal arts college. When one of his creative writing students, Angelo Argo (Timlin), begins to write a story about a young woman embarking on a sexual relationship with her professor, the lines between their relationship begins to blur.
Video of Submission Starring Stanley Tucci - Trailer
In many ways, this seems like a timely film, but from the looks of the trailer, which asks the question who is the victim and who is the victimizer in this situation, it...
- 2/1/2018
- Den of Geek
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