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Inside the Mind of Leonardo

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The mindscape and ideas of the polymath told directly from his notes and journals.

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Michael O'Sullivan Washington Post 01/01/2015
2/4
Not quite documentary, yet by no means drama, "Inside the Mind of Leonardo" is what might be called poetic biography: maddeningly fragmentary and idiosyncratic, but 100 percent true. Go to Full Review Jay Weissberg Variety 12/22/2014
Animating his drawings makes him more child's cartoonist than incomparable draughtsman, and Peter Capaldi's modern-dress impersonation has a gratuitously histrionic intensity. Go to Full Review Martin Tsai Los Angeles Times 12/18/2014
Though billed as a 3-D experience, "Leonardo" is flat in more ways than one. Go to Full Review Joe Bendel Epoch Times 06/03/2016
3/5
Works quite well when it really does go inside-either into da Vinci's chambers or into the pages of his notebooks. Go to Full Review Austin Trunick Under the Radar 12/21/2014
6/10
The movie is less about telling us what Da Vinci achieved and how, but attempting to figure out why he did what he did. Go to Full Review Mark R. Leeper Mark Leeper's Reviews 12/19/2014
7/10
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02/04/2015 This was self indulgent and amateurish, tantamount to a 9th grader's video essay. The intrusions of modernity were jarring. This contributes absolutely nothing more (and possibly quite a bit less) than a child's report. There is so little here: a rumination about flight, the nature of water, Leonardo's concept of himself as special. There is no revelation about the man's internal landscape. There is little discussion of his work or achievements. The most striking idea here is how little Leonardo actually accomplished. Those in search of information on Leonardo would do far better to watch a PBS or History Channel biography. Skip this. See more Read all reviews
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Julian Jones

Director

Peter Capaldi

Leonardo Da Vinci

Nick Dear

Screenwriter

Julian Jones

Screenwriter

Julian P. Hobbs

Producer

Kim Gaboury

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Movie Info

Synopsis The mindscape and ideas of the polymath told directly from his notes and journals.
Director
Julian Jones
Producer
Julian P. Hobbs
Screenwriter
Nick Dear, Julian Jones
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Box Office (Gross USA)
$10.6K
Runtime
1h 25m