Savage Messiah (1972)
Country: GB
Technical: Metrocolor 103m
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Dorothy Tutin, Scott Anthony, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp
Synopsis:
A tempestuous Parisian artist with cubist tendencies and a Polish former governess move to London where they rent miserable accommodation alongside a railway station so that he can get busy producing a body of work.
Review:
Particularly theatrical - in acting and mise en scène - Russell biopic, affording a relatively mild interlude between The Devils and Mahler, but with the iconoclasm fully embodied by the irreverent, wilful artist at the film's centre. The director can't resist a sideswipe at the Great War at the end but then subverts expectations with the revelation that Gaudier was as full-blooded in his killing as in his sculpture. Mirren plays a suffragette, which for Russell clearly equates to 'sexually emancipated woman ready to parade naked around her father's house'.
Country: GB
Technical: Metrocolor 103m
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Dorothy Tutin, Scott Anthony, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp
Synopsis:
A tempestuous Parisian artist with cubist tendencies and a Polish former governess move to London where they rent miserable accommodation alongside a railway station so that he can get busy producing a body of work.
Review:
Particularly theatrical - in acting and mise en scène - Russell biopic, affording a relatively mild interlude between The Devils and Mahler, but with the iconoclasm fully embodied by the irreverent, wilful artist at the film's centre. The director can't resist a sideswipe at the Great War at the end but then subverts expectations with the revelation that Gaudier was as full-blooded in his killing as in his sculpture. Mirren plays a suffragette, which for Russell clearly equates to 'sexually emancipated woman ready to parade naked around her father's house'.
Country: GB
Technical: Metrocolor 103m
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Dorothy Tutin, Scott Anthony, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp
Synopsis:
A tempestuous Parisian artist with cubist tendencies and a Polish former governess move to London where they rent miserable accommodation alongside a railway station so that he can get busy producing a body of work.
Review:
Particularly theatrical - in acting and mise en scène - Russell biopic, affording a relatively mild interlude between The Devils and Mahler, but with the iconoclasm fully embodied by the irreverent, wilful artist at the film's centre. The director can't resist a sideswipe at the Great War at the end but then subverts expectations with the revelation that Gaudier was as full-blooded in his killing as in his sculpture. Mirren plays a suffragette, which for Russell clearly equates to 'sexually emancipated woman ready to parade naked around her father's house'.