Posted by: Iain Fisher
« on: May 20, 2009, 12:17:44 AM »The review is in Sight & Sound, June 2009:
"... this may be Ken Russell's most berserk film, an instant turnoff or supreme guilty pleasure according to one's own (appalling) taste..."
"The early scene in which assorted 19th century musicians are systematically mocked... seems designed to drive away classical purists, thus sparing them a collective conniption at the sight of Liszt's ten-foot phallus..."
"... how many British films have been made since whose authorship could be so instantly established from a single random freeze-frame?
A good (short) review.
"... this may be Ken Russell's most berserk film, an instant turnoff or supreme guilty pleasure according to one's own (appalling) taste..."
"The early scene in which assorted 19th century musicians are systematically mocked... seems designed to drive away classical purists, thus sparing them a collective conniption at the sight of Liszt's ten-foot phallus..."
"... how many British films have been made since whose authorship could be so instantly established from a single random freeze-frame?
A good (short) review.