Macdonald is extraordinary in giving Smirnoff's film a new life, and thanks to Moverman and Turtletaub, we have
a poignantly beautiful story told from a woman's point of view.
Lightman, author of Einstein's Dreams (1993), perfectly captures the frenzy of our electronic era in this breakneck yet
poignantly beautiful tale of one man's short - circuiting under the relentless pace and pressure of life in the age of information overload, a predicament contrasted, thanks to an Internet college course, with the
story of Socrates.