Words and Pictures is a 2013 American drama film directed by Fred Schepisi and starring Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, and Keegan Connor Tracy.

He demonstrates how some carefully chosen words and phrases can stimulate the listener's imagination to produce vivid mental imagery.

Dina was a successful painter in New York City, but she now has difficulty painting or even walking and engaging in daily activities because of severe rheumatoid arthritis.

The site's critical consensus reads: "While both talented performers in their own right, Juliette Binoche and Clive Owen are decidedly mismatched in Words and Pictures, and they aren't done many favors by the movie's awkwardly constructed screenplay.

[5] Odie Henderson of RogerEbert.com gave the film only one and a half stars and wrote: "Unfortunately, Words and Pictures fails at portraying both titular nouns.

"[6] Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "Schepisi, whose last film was his adaptation The Eye of the Storm, based on an Australian classic, is a general who marshals actors to bring emotional depth to almost any kind of screenplay.

Not that the chemistry isn't there between Owen and Binoche, who has rarely looked so beautiful onscreen, even playing a woman with physical handicaps.

But the strange reticence of the scene when the two finally hit the hay feels like a throwback to the 1930s, including a huge cutaway that ends with the protags in bed with the sheets pulled up to their necks, saying how great it all was.

"[7] Claudia Puig of USA Today gave Words and Pictures three and half stars and stated: "A thoughtful film about ideas—creativity, the power of language and the eloquence of visuals—it features two impeccable performances full of vitality.

Clive Owen plays Jack Marcus, a voluble prep school English teacher who laments the reductive nature of social media.