A Tchaikovsky Cacophony: THE MUSIC LOVERS Glenda Jackson dir. Ken Russell + WOMEN IN LOVE

Описание: WOMEN IN LOVE contains Ken Russell's nascent premise for THE MUSIC LOVERS in a late scene (featured in the second clip, 4:27). The director's uncanny sense for alchemizing music and image into story surely makes him one of the progenitors of the music video format.

In deconstructing the life of Tchaikovsky, each of THE MUSIC LOVERS' characters is a lover of music, a musical person in love, or a lover beguiled by the music. All doe-eyed and in hysterics, most of them demonstrate the failings of Romanticism in a film which eschews biographical facts in service of a higher aim, interpreting real life through fantasy--in all its best and worst outcomes (mostly the latter).

THE MUSIC LOVERS, 1971. Dir. Ken Russell. Starring Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian, Kenneth Colley, Christopher Gable, Izabella Telezynska. Dir. of photography Douglas Slocombe. Wri. Melvyn Bragg (adapted from the biography Beloved Friend: The Story of Tchaikowsky and Nadejda von Meck, by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck.)

WOMEN IN LOVE, 1969. Dir. Ken Russell. Starring Alan Bates, Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, Jennie Linden, Elinor Bron, and with Christopher Gable, Michael Gough, Catherine Willmer, and Vladek Sheybal. Adapted from the novel by D.H. Lawrence. Dir. of photography Billy Williams. Costumes by Shirley Russell.

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0:00 A Tchaikovsky Cacophony

0:07 THE MUSIC LOVERS, Swan Lake as a catty double entendre

4:27 WOMEN IN LOVE, Role-playing to the Pathétique Symphony