Synopsis
Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.
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Cast
- Dev PatelSrinivasa Ramanujan
- Jeremy IronsG. H. Hardy
- Toby JonesLittlewood
- Devika BhiseJanaki
- Stephen FrySir Francis Spring
- Kevin McNallyMajor MacMahon
- Jeremy NorthamBertrand Russell
- Anthony CalfHoward
- Pádraic DelaneyBeglan
- Shazad LatifChandra Mahalanobis
Recommendations
- 83
The Film Stage
We aren’t given this glorious journey of a genius plucked from obscurity as much as we are the trials and tribulations of success. Brown’s film is all about the hardships thrust upon Ramanujan. - 75
The A.V. Club
This is the very definition of the kind of movie people complain that “they” don’t make anymore: a modestly budgeted, character-driven drama for adults that doesn’t insult the viewer’s intelligence or lean on shock value. - 70
Screen Daily
The film is unashamedly middle-brow and sentimental but it tells such a good story that it is hard to resist. - 60
The Telegraph
Irons’s Hardy steals this film away from its ostensible hero, in part because pulling the shutters down makes him that much harder to know. - 60
Empire
Well intentioned and played, this shows flashes of what could have been, but is ultimately let down by its timidity towards the maths, and fails to make the case for its own hero’s greatness. - 60
Time Out
Polite, earnest stuff, but it never quite adds up to much. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Highly engaging performances by Dev Patel in the lead role and Jeremy Irons as his curmudgeonly mentor gradually warm up the Cambridge story, but the Indian part feels perfunctory and unconvincing. - 50
Variety
The arguments between Ramanujan and Hardy form easily the most absorbing aspect of The Man Who Knew Infinity, as their eloquent clash of wills is shown to be not just intellectual but ideological in nature.
