The Broken Tower

Name: The Broken Tower
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Released: June 20, 2011
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 46
Cast: James Franco, Michael Shannon, Stacey Miller

2011

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Focus World | Release Date: June 20, 2011

Starring: James Franco, Michael Shannon, Stacey Miller

Summary: A biography of American poet Hart Crane who committed suicide at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.

Director: James Franco

Genre(s): Biography, Drama, History, War

Runtime: 99 min

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Blake Dew

Apr 12, 2018

The Broken Tower is a wonderful labour of passion and love for this incredible artist and his broken life and it could not have been a more perfect way to encapsulate the incredibly obscure and fantastic artist that is Hart Crane. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

Apr 12, 2018

It’s a pensive and heartfelt movie, assuming that you let yourself get caught up in its moody-minimalist, more-visual-than-verbal style. Read full review

Joshua Rothkopf

Apr 12, 2018

The Broken Tower feels unique as a young man’s tribute to an adventuresome, doomed soul. Read full review

John Anderson

Apr 12, 2018

Though clearly besotted with Crane’s poetry, the writer-director-star never achieves full immersion in the man’s life or work; the sense is of people playing a very cerebral game of dress-up. Read full review

Matthew Connolly

Apr 12, 2018

It’s tonally flat and a little too impressed with its own elliptical construction. Yet there’s something about Franco’s desire to escape the straitjacket of the biopic’s pat psychologizing and greatest-hits structure that makes his film feel at least honest in its missteps. Read full review

Elizabeth Weitzman

Apr 12, 2018

Franco’s rather flat narration doesn’t do justice to Crane’s verse, but he is a charismatic onscreen presence. Read full review

Nathan Rabin

Apr 12, 2018

It plays like unwitting art-house self-parody from a narcissist who takes himself, and his brooding subject matter, way too seriously. Read full review

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