Telluride at Dartmouth: "The Imitation Game"
The thrilling and heartbreaking story of math genius Alan Turing (Benedict Cumberbatch) who cracked the encrypted Nazi military codes and saved England.
During World War II, the brilliant, idiosyncratic British mathematician Alan Turing—a pioneer in the theory of artificial intelligence—was assigned the task of decoding Nazi Germany’s encrypted military messages. Norwegian director Morton Tyldum (Headhunters) flawlessly weaves together psychological insight with a panoramic history of the war and its aftermath. Benedict Cumberbatch convincingly conveys both the excitement and the painful isolation of Turing’s creative genius, with superb support from Charles Dance (Game of Thrones) as the military man who considers him a fraud, Mark Strong as the sinister head of Britain’s MI6 and Keira Knightley, a gifted puzzle-solver who makes a poignant effort to help lead Turing toward a more normal life. (UK/US, 2014, 114m) Courtesy of The Weinstein Co.
