Tommy (1975)
Country: GB
Technical: col/70mm 111m
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John, Robert Powell
Synopsis:
Widowed by the war, Nora and her sensitive son Tommy start life anew with a holiday camp counsellor, and the child retreats inside itself, becoming psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind. However, when they discover his talent for pinball, he becomes a national phenomenon.
Review:
An absurd rock opera about the ephemera of popular culture and demagoguery is given reliable advocacy by iconoclast Russell. Some of it is so unpleasant to watch one is positively nauseous, with its short lenses, swooning camera angles and brash art direction, but few films can have gathered together so many figures from the world of contemporary rock music that it is worth a look.
Country: GB
Technical: col/70mm 111m
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John, Robert Powell
Synopsis:
Widowed by the war, Nora and her sensitive son Tommy start life anew with a holiday camp counsellor, and the child retreats inside itself, becoming psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind. However, when they discover his talent for pinball, he becomes a national phenomenon.
Review:
An absurd rock opera about the ephemera of popular culture and demagoguery is given reliable advocacy by iconoclast Russell. Some of it is so unpleasant to watch one is positively nauseous, with its short lenses, swooning camera angles and brash art direction, but few films can have gathered together so many figures from the world of contemporary rock music that it is worth a look.
Country: GB
Technical: col/70mm 111m
Director: Ken Russell
Cast: Roger Daltrey, Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Elton John, Robert Powell
Synopsis:
Widowed by the war, Nora and her sensitive son Tommy start life anew with a holiday camp counsellor, and the child retreats inside itself, becoming psychosomatically deaf, dumb and blind. However, when they discover his talent for pinball, he becomes a national phenomenon.
Review:
An absurd rock opera about the ephemera of popular culture and demagoguery is given reliable advocacy by iconoclast Russell. Some of it is so unpleasant to watch one is positively nauseous, with its short lenses, swooning camera angles and brash art direction, but few films can have gathered together so many figures from the world of contemporary rock music that it is worth a look.