The Words

A coincidence. The week started with 'Sex With Strangers', a play about two writers and it closes with 'The Words', a film about three writers.

Dennis Quaid is an author doing readings of his new book. The new book concerns a struggling author, Bradley Cooper, who hits the big time when a manuscript he found in an old briefcase about a doomed love affair is published as his work.  Jeremy Irons is the old man who emerges to confront Cooper as the true creator of the manuscript.

The film's structure is like a Faberge doll. A story within a story within another story. All three stories are essentially the same but seen from different perspectives. Set in New York and Paris the stories take us from the present to the post war period and back again.

A romantic drama focussing on three men, each unfulfilled in his own way.

★★★★