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The
Music Lovers
Directed
by Ken
Russell
Written by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Melvyn Bragg
Starring Richard Chamberlain,
Glenda
Jackson, Max
Adrian, Christopher
Gable, Isabella
Telezynska, Kenneth
Colley, Sabina
Maydelle, Maureen
Pryor, Bruce
Robinson as Alexei, Andrew Faulds,
Ben
Aris, Joanne
Brown, Imogen
Claire, John
Myers, Dennis
Myers
The
compelling and bizarre story of Tchaikovsky's life and
music. In Ken Russell's own words: "It's the story
of the
marriage between a homosexual and a nymphomaniac."
Genre:
Drama / Musical
Also
Known As:
Ken Russell's Film on Tchaikovsky and the Music Lovers
(1971)
Runtime: UK:122
Country: UK
Language: English
Certification: USA:R / Finland:K-16 /
Sweden:15
Nobita
- 6 February 1999
Summary:
Dramatic, yet fun.
This
film is one of Ken Russell's best dramatic romps. He
dashes through late 19th Century Russian
history
without a care to whether it is all in the correct place
or not. But that doesn't matter. It's your
typical
Russell film: Overstated dramatic acting, madness, mental
institutions, frilly frocks and women
with
low-cut dresses and big boobs. As this film recounts the
life of 19th Century Russian composer
Pyotr
Tchaikovsky, Russell manages to capture a feeling this is
essentially Russian. You could almost
swear that
the story was straight out of a Checkov play, it has that
Russian warmth to it. Far more
interesting
than a long, drawn-out serious biography, The Music
Lovers is fun and entertaining in a
dramatic
way, worth watching. However, keep to the encyclopaedia
if you want a proper history of
Tchaikovsky's
life.
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