The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain with Will Sharpe | Picturehouse

<p>Felicity Beckett talks to director Will Sharpe about his new film, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain. </p> <p>After his father's death, Louis Wain (Benedict Cumberbatch, The Imitation Game) is left alone to look after his five sisters and his mother.</p> <p>Three things set him on a more colourful path: he’s offered a job as an illustrator by a prestigious magazine editor, he meets and falls in love with his sisters’ new governess (Claire Foy), and the pair of them adopt a stray cat they name Peter, whose presence inspires him to take a new and extraordinary artistic turn.</p>