The Music Lovers [VHS]
by Ken Russell
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Actor: Christopher Gable, Glenda Jackson, Kenneth Colley, Max Adrian, Richard ChamberlainDirector: Ken Russell
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language), Analog
Format: Color, NTSC
Running Time: 123 minutes
Release Date: 1993-01-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Publisher: MGM
Studio: MGM
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Movie Review: brillant film
Summary: 5 Stars
I once saw this film plus, "The Devils," and "Women in Love," for a six hour marathon in France. I fell in love totally with Ken Russell, a brillant director with such a genius for the visual and the emotions portrayed by characters. This film has been panned by people who just do not have any true knowledge of great film making. To me, as Madame Von Meck says in the film, (about Tchaikovsky- about Russell) he is a genius. His music (films) will live on way beyond all of us. The pity is this film is not in DVD- I think it is a deliberate censorship of his talent. "The Devils," another brillant film, only came into DVD about three years ago as did, "Women in love." This is a film worth paying the money for. It is unforgettable.
Summary of The Music Lovers [VHS]
Furious, violently bombastic, terribly unsettling, Ken Russell's 1970 biography of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) is a portrait of artistic brilliance beset by the Russian composer's mounting guilt over, well, everything: his homosexuality, his marriage to the increasingly miserable and mad Nina (Glenda Jackson), his hidden attraction to Count Anton Chiluvsky (Christopher Gable), and his suggestively incestuous relations with a sister while growing up. Consumed by his art to the point of explosiveness, Tchaikovsky has increasing difficulty coping with his life, finding some solace in the distant love proffered by his rich patroness (who refuses to meet him but communicates her feelings through letters). Russell intends the film to be a bumpy and harsh ride that descends into grotesque tragedy as Nina is confined to a monstrous asylum and Tchaikovsky becomes ill. Still, there are a few of the usual pop-surreal sequences of which the director is so fond, most memorably a loony visual accompaniment for the 1812 Overture. --Tom KeoghArt House & International VHS Video
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