Film Review: Benedict Cumberbatch goes on a journey in The Electrical Life of Louis Wain

"A pleasantly whimsical tale of Bohemian life gradually gives way to a sobering account of mental illness"

Fri, 31 Dec, 2021 - 15:00

Declan Burke

★★★★☆

Set in Victorian-era London, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (12A) stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Louis Wain, the quintessential eccentric Englishman who was fascinated by the ‘mysterious, elemental force’ of electricity, but who found unexpected fame as an artist who specialised in anthropomorphic drawings of cats, in the process changing the world’s opinion about felines.