Inside the Mind of Leonardo

Name: Inside the Mind of Leonardo
Genre: TV Movie, Documentary

United Kingdom, Canada · 2013
1h 25m
Director Julian Jones
Starring Peter Capaldi
Genre TV Movie, Documentary

Inside The Mind of Leonardo is based on the artist’s private journals dating from the Italian Renaissance. With over 6,000 pages of handwritten notes and drawings, da Vinci’s private journals are the most comprehensive documents that chronicle the work of the world’s most renowned inventor, philosopher, painter and genius. Using this precious collection of writings and drawings to recount Da Vinci’s story in his own words, and combining them with stunning visual effects and 3D technology, we re-create the mindscape and ideas of mankind’s greatest polymath.

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Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl

[A] goof/stunt of a movie.

The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg

The movie starts by noting Leonardo’s intent to leave a memory of himself in the minds of others. That’s a benchmark Inside the Mind of Leonardo won’t meet.

Variety by Jay Weissberg

The documentary envisions the groundbreaking visionary as a voracious polymath (true) while giving shockingly short shrift to the man as artist.

Los Angeles Times by Martin Tsai

Though billed as a 3-D experience, Leonardo is flat in more ways than one.

Washington Post by Michael O'Sullivan

Not quite documentary, yet by no means drama, Inside the Mind of Leonardo is what might be called poetic biography: maddeningly fragmentary and idiosyncratic, but 100 percent true.