TORONTO -- The genius of Geometry In Venice can't be established with a compass, a protractor, a slide rule or even a computer.

Title notwithstanding, the genius of Michael Mackenzie's script doesn't flow from geometry's immutable laws -- 'the shortest distance between two points is a straight line' or 'the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the adjacent sides.' Rather, it can be found in the work's intelligence and its humanity, things not nearly so precise or predictable.
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