The Man Who Knew Infinity, an autobiographical film about an Indian mathematician that explores early 20th Century colonialism, opens June 3, 5, 8, and 10 at the Normal Theater.
The 2015 film, based on the 1991 book of the same name by Robert Kanigel, stars Dev Patel as the real-life Srinivasa Ramanujan, a mathematician who after growing up poor in Madras, India, earns admittance to Cambridge University during World War I, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G. H. Hardy (Jeremy Irons).
The PG-13 film is part of the Beyond Normal Films Series promoting foreign, American independent, and documentary films with the Normal Theater and the Bloomington-Normal community.