PROFESSOR MARSTON & THE WONDER WOMEN

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Professor Marston & The Wonder Women winds a lasso of cinematic truth around a fascinating fact-based tale with strong performances from its three stars. Read critic reviews

A scene from "Professor Marston & the Wonder Women."

A scene from "Professor Marston & the Wonder Women."

A scene from "Professor Marston và the Wonder Women."

If behind every great man is a great woman, then Harvard psychologist & inventor Dr. William Moulton Marston has the good fortune of having two -- his wife Elizabeth và their mutual lover Olive Byrne. In addition khổng lồ helping him perfect the lie detector test, the two women also inspire him to create one of the greatest female superheroes of all time -- the beloved comic book character Wonder Woman.

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Rating: R (Language|Brief Graphic Images|Strong Sexual Content)

Genre: Biography, History, Drama

Original Language: English

Release Date (Theaters): Oct 13, 2017 wide

Release Date (Streaming): Jan 30, 2018

Box Office (Gross USA): $1.6M

Runtime: 1h 48m

Distributor: Annapurna Pictures

Production Co: Strongman, Stage 6 Films, Boxspring Entertainment, Topple Productions

Cast và Crew

Luke Evans

William Moulton Marston

Rebecca Hall

Elizabeth Marston

Bella Heathcote

Olive Byrne

Connie Britton

Josette Frank

Monica Giordano

Mary

JJ Feild

Charles Guyette

Chris Conroy

Brant Gregory

Oliver Platt

M.C. Gaines

Maggie Castle

Dorothy Roubicek

Alexa Havins

Molly Stewart

Sharon Kubo

Kate

Allie Gallerani

Sara

Christopher Jon Gombos

Fred Steward

Forry Buckingham

Doctor

Frank Ridley

Office Manager

Angela Robinson

Director

Angela Robinson

Screenwriter

Terry Leonard

Producer

Amy Redford

Producer

Andrea Sperling

Executive Producer

Joey Soloway

Executive Producer

Bryce Fortner

Cinematographer

Jeffrey M. Werner

Film Editing

Tom Howe

Original Music

Carl Sprague

Production kiến thiết

Danica Chipman

set Decoration

Donna Maloney

Costume kiến thiết

Eve Battaglia

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It has all the trappings of a tasteful period piece: the true-story origins, the tweedy collegiate setting, the to-die-for costumes. But beneath all that, “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women” aims to shake you up, make you think & maybe even squirm a little.

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Make that a lot. This movie is sexy as hell, featuring several scenes of steamy three-ways and kinky S&M games. Luke Evans as the title character & Rebecca Hall và Bella Heathcote as the two great loves of his life have ridiculous, combustible chemistry in & out of the bedroom (as well as the many other locations, public & private, where they dared khổng lồ explore their shared love at a time when the rest of the world definitely wasn’t ready for it).

But “Professor Marston” also couldn’t be more relevant, & not just because it happens khổng lồ be hitting theaters just four months after the release of the smash-hit blockbuster “Wonder Woman.” It’s a timely affirmation of feminine power—of the ways in which female wisdom và strength can charge hearts & minds, influence culture và inspire others lớn be their most authentic selves. That was certainly true of this summer’s origin story, with its deeply moving lead performance from Gal Gadot, và it’s true again here in the origin story behind that origin story.

It takes a little while for the beloved superhero khổng lồ come into full blossom, but her iconography is there, emerging steadily in illuminating, amusing ways. Unfortunately, though, writer/director Angela Robinson relies on a back-and-forth narrative structure—which has been used in so many biopics, it’s become a cliché—to tell the tale of how the comic book heroine and her alter ego, Diana Prince, came into being.

At the film’s start in the mid-1940s, Evans’ William Marston—who created Wonder Woman under the pseudonym Charles Moulton—is being interrogated about the character’s scandalous, sadomasochistic imagery by the head of the Child Study Association of America, the uptight Josette Frank (Connie Britton). Flashbacks to 1928, when he was a Harvard psychology professor working alongside his brilliant wife, Elizabeth (Hall), shed light on the source of this aesthetic.

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Where Marston was all charm and charisma and good looks, Elizabeth was sharp-witted and no-nonsense. The energy between the two crackles long before they begin sharing their lab—and, eventually, their bed—with Olive Byrne (Heathcote), a Radcliffe student who initially enters their lives as a research assistant. The couple can’t deny their joint attraction for the bright, beautiful blonde—and she, in turn, falls for them both, which she’s forced to lớn admit in an exquisitely tense scene involving an early version of a lie detector. (The Marstons are crediting with coming up with the device.)

Their sexual frolicking leads lớn dress-up và bondage when Marston brings his two loves to the backroom of a costume shop for a secret rope-play course—and the corset, boots and ropes they employ might look a little familiar. (Cinematographer Bryce Fortner’s dramatic use of silhouette lighting during this scene adds to lớn its warm, intimate power—and, yes, its wonder.)

Early on, though, we had a hint that this might be a shared turn-on when the couple spies on Olive paddling a sorority pledge during a hazing ritual—supposedly as research for their theories on dominance & submission. Và conversely, we can tell from the way Heathcote’s big, xanh eyes widen even more that Olive is enjoying being watched. It’s scenes lượt thích these that reveal how deftly Robinson builds suspense and how seamlessly she introduces the psychology that inspired Wonder Woman.

But then she makes the mistake of undermining that tension và insight by hopping back and forth in time, often at predicable moments. And “Professor Marston” can be painfully on-the-nose in making its points, such as the use of Nina Simone’s sultry “Feeling Good” during the first time the three explore their pent-up desires. I mean, of course they are. It’s obvious.

The performances from the three leads always keep the film compelling, though—especially from Hall and Heathcote, two actresses with extremely different screen presences who nonetheless challenge & complement each other perfectly. “Professor Marston” works well as an elucidating slice of pop-culture history you might not have known before, but it’s even more impactful as a timeless celebration of strong women supporting each other.

Christy Lemire is a longtime film critic who has written for Roger
Ebert.com since 2013. Before that, she was the film critic for The Associated Press for nearly 15 years and co-hosted the public television series "Ebert Presents At the Movies" opposite Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, with Roger Ebert serving as managing editor. Read her answers khổng lồ our Movie Love Questionnaire here.