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The Book of Vision

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Lotte Verbeek

Charles Dance

Sverrir Gudnason

Isolda Dychauk-Ott

Filippo Nigro

Vera Filatova

Giselda Volodi

Marco Quaglia

Rocco Gottlieb

Douglas Dean

Justin Alexander Korovkin

Gerardo Panichi

Nicolas van der Biest

Michele Petochi

David Crank

Nicolas Blampain

Massimo Lorenzato

Daniele Modina

Federico Verdinelli

Robin Monotti Graziadei

Massimo Galiano

Federico Vagliati

Bruno Verstraete

Chiara Coller

Roberto Benetti

Paolo Furlanelli

Carlo Shalom Hintermann

Sébastien Delloye

Terrence Malick

Elsa Ruhlmann

Paolo Galiano

Béatrice Kruger

Pascalle Willame

Paola Bonsembiante

Sophia Tamaro

Marco Saura

Simone Bachini

Stéphane Bidault

Alessandra Masi

Riccardo Fedrizzi

Benoît Theunissen

Roger Schins

Jerome Bellavista Caltagirone

André Fonsny

Tamara Marini

Philippe Groff

Kevin Dardenne

Giuseppe Tedeschi

Henri Morelle

Anca Rafan

Toon De Clercq

Giovanna Cané

Desideria Corridoni

Antonello Resch

Michela Tomasi

Dominique Degand

Matteo Bertelli

Clifford De Spenser

Juliette Fassin

Korneel Moeyaert

Katharina Dießner

Julie Ghesquiere

Jörg Widmer

Mariano Tufano

Stefano Grosso

Piero Lassandro

Aldo Signoretti

Giuseppe D'Amato

Lorenzo Ceccotti

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It's been a while since seeing Charles Dance's name on a cast list has suggested anything compelling to follow, and here is just another story that allows him to don a wig, doublet and hoes and help us solve a time-shift mystery. "Eva" (Lotte Verbeek) is studying the history of medicine at a remote facility where "Dr. Anmuth" (Dance) is her supervisor. As she delves deeper into the mysteries of her science, she discovers that he was also an 18th century physician at the cutting edge (depending on your perspective) of clinical practise diverting from that hardly evolved since God was a boy and leeches were ten for a pound down the apothecary. Her research uncovers the eponymous piece of literature and that's when we all start to experience the parallel timelines of this story as her 21st century, pregnant, character shows startling similarities to that of an 18th century counterpart "Elizabeth" - a wealthy woman in the care of "Anmuth". Facing modern day pressures from colleagues and latter day pressures from family and friends entirely suspicious of any kind of new thinking, she must walk a perilous tightrope. Verbeek is not a very imposing actor, and here she is supported by the equally unimpressive Sverrir Gudnason ("Lindgren") and though, admittedly, Dance does bring a little gravitas to the proceedings, he too struggles to get what could have been quite an intriguing story off the ground. It looks quite good, cash has clearly been spent, but not on the writing and the talent and that's disappointing.

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Lotte Verbeek

Charles Dance

Sverrir Gudnason

Isolda Dychauk-Ott

Filippo Nigro

Vera Filatova

Giselda Volodi

Marco Quaglia

Rocco Gottlieb

Douglas Dean

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