The story of artist Louis Wain’s life and preoccupation with cats as well and their connection to the emergence of electricity unfolds in Will Sharpe's 'The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain ...

See Wain’s work and a film still here. Louis Wain, Cats’ Christmas (ca. 1935). Courtesy Bethlem Museum of the Mind. Louis Wain, Carol Singing Cats (ca. 1930). Courtesy Bethlem Museum of the Mind.

Yes. The new Amazon movie, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, is based on the true story of the life of English artist Louis Wain, who was best known for his cartoonish, colorful drawings of cats.

Based on the true story of Louis Wain, a turn of the 20th century artist and illustrator who helped popularize cats as pets in late Victorian England and the world, Will Sharpe’s delightfully ...

I can has Cumberbatch? Cat painter bio-pic ‘Louis Wain’ is no meow-sterpiece By Jessica Kiang Oct. 21, 2021 7:29 PM PT ...

MOVIE INFO “THE ELECTRICAL LIFE OF LOUIS WAIN” English artist Louis Wain rises to prominence at the end of the 19th century for his surreal cat paintings. Biography, drama, history Rating: PG ...

Louis Wain painted cats, hundreds if not thousands of cats. He painted the critters with big googly eyes, gathered round the dinner table, serving tea or slurping at straws.

MOVIE REVIEW ‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’: when a painter puts cats on his canvas Benedict Cumberbatch stars a real-life British artist who made felines his specialty ...

And he’s squarely in his comfort zone in “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” which is about as whimsical a movie you’ll ever see about an artist who is haunted by a dark childhood memory ...

Artist Louis Wain is played by Benedict Cumberbatch in the whimsical, wonderful dramedy “The Electrical Life of Louis Wain,” which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.

And cats, a lot of cats. First, of course, there was Peter, and a new first look at the film shows off Cumberbatch and Foy meeting the unlikely object of their eventual inspiration. (He’s cute.) ...