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Mar 14, 2018akirakato rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Directed by Michael Grandage in 2016 based on the 1978 National Book Award-winner "Max Perkins: Editor of Genius" by A. Scott Berg, this British-American docudrama depicts the turbulent friendship between world-renowned edito Maxwell Parkins and the larger-than-life writer Thomas Wolfe. In 1925, Thomas Wolfe met Aline Bernstein (1880–1955), a scene designer for the Theatre Guild. Twenty years his senior, she was married to a successful stockbroker with whom she had two children. In October 1925, she and Wolfe became lovers and remained so for five years. Their affair was also turbulent and sometimes combative, but she exerted a powerful influence, encouraging and funding his writing. It would be more fun if the film delved into the writer's relationship with Mrs. Bernstein.