NYTimes gives this Darwin biopic film a mixed review today. "'Creation' sets out to tell a rich and momentous story, culled from the pages of history and full of present-day topical resonance.... A great, civilizational drama looms, but what we see on screen is a lumbering, flat-footed fancy-dress melodrama.”
More interesting that the film itself is the "behind the scenes drama" of the film's distribution. The studio initially had trouble obtaining a US distributor. "The film has no distributor in America," said producer Jeremy Thomas. "It has got a deal everywhere else in the world but in the US, and it's because of what the film is about. People have been saying this is the best film they've seen all year, yet nobody in the US has picked it up."
However,
NewMarket Films agreed to distribute it in the US. Right now it's only playing in New York. Hopefully it will expand beyond NY/LA so the rest of the US will have a counterpoint to "Passion of the Christ." (And I'll refrain from trashing that movie here, as much as I'd like to.)
Also has a pretty cool poster.
