A prolific actor with many film and TV credits to his name (Cloverfield and Castle among them), Brian Klugman has now added writer/director to his repertoire, making his filmmaking debut alongside lifelong friend Lee Sternthal on The Words.
Jeff of We Got This Covered wrote, "The Words is a film with a fascinating story at its core. It revolves around a writer, Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper), who puts everything he has into writing a book that ends up being rejected by every publisher he submits it to. Just when he thinks his writing career might not take off, he happens upon a valise that contains an old manuscript for a novel written 50 years ago, telling the tale of a young soldier who falls in love with a French woman."
The hilariously overwritten novel at the center of The Words, The Window’s Tears, is so blatantly melodramatic that one of the film’s biggest logic holes comes from the clamor over the novel by supposedly legitimate publishers. The biggest hole is the majority of the narrative, a terribly generic story wrapped in a layered screenwriting conceit that takes little time to figure out and even less time to see through.
A film whose ambiguity is unlikely to be appreciated by certain audiences who will undoubtedly find it confusing and manipulative, yet it deserves to be structurally, emotionally, and thematically analyzed.
Full review by Chris Pandolfi.
