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Director:
Writers:
Christopher Logue (screenplay)
H.S. Ede (book)
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Release Date:
September 1972 (UK) more
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Tagline:
All art is sex!
Awards:
Nominated for BAFTA Film Award. more
User Comments:
A Striking Portrait of Creative Energy: more (13 total)

Cast

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Dorothy Tutin ... Sophie Brzeska
Scott Antony ... Henri Gaudier

Helen Mirren ... Gosh Boyle
Lindsay Kemp ... Angus Corky
Michael Gough ... M. Gaudier
John Justin ... Lionel Shaw
Aubrey Richards ... Mayor
Peter Vaughan ... Museum Attendant
Ben Aris ... Thomas Buff
Eleanor Fazan ... Mdme. Gaudier
Otto Diamant ... Mr. Saltzman
Imogen Claire ... Mavis Coldstream
Maggy Maxwell ... Tart
Susanna East ... Pippa
Judith Paris ... Kate
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Additional Details

Runtime:
103 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The mock "Polish folk song" that Sophie (Dorothy Tutin) sings at the posh dinner party was "composed" (improvised) by the actress herself. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in Moulin Rouge! (2001) more
Soundtrack:
TWO FLEAS more

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A Striking Portrait of Creative Energy:, 10 July 2000
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Author: Gail G. Grant (g3x3@bigfoot.com) from geneva, Switzerland

Among the best of Ken Russell's films, this work probes, again, the nature of artistic genius, the mores of artists during the last 150 years and, especially, the proximity of this form of genius to psycho-pathology. During this period-- 1968 to 1975-- the period of Russell's greatest popularity, infamy and exposure coincided with a formative period of my life. He was ' a god of my adolescence.' This is a powerful and important film, based on Ede's book. If you have the opportunity to go to England, visit Ede's house, now a museum, in Cambridge city. The Kettle's Yard.

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