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The Music Lovers

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The Music Lovers
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R,2hrs 2min
Genres:
Drama,Musical
Released:
January 1, 1971
Director:
Ken Russell
Distributor:
United Artists
Starring:
Richard Chamberlain, Glenda Jackson, Max Adrian  ...more
Synopsis: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky is given the Ken Russell treatment in The Music Lovers, which means that there is plenty of music, plenty of passion, plenty of debauchery, and plenty of excess. Tame by Russell's later standards (Lisztomania), The Music Lovers nevertheless thrives on creative and sexual anguish. Richard Chamberlain plays Tchaikovsky with a bug-eyed intensity as a composer consumed by his art -- so consumed that his romantic attachments become bisexual and irrational. He falls in love with ... Full Synopsis
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Craig Butler, AMG Review
The films of Ken Russell tend to provoke strong reactions from audiences. Never one to sacrifice drama for subtlety, his work on The Music Lovers is among his most passionate, oversized, and florid, although it is relatively restrained in terms of surreal visual imagery and storytelling technique. Russell seems to be trying to create a movie that is as fractured and schizophrenic as Tchaikovsky's life, ... Full Review
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Richard Chamberlain
Peter Tchaikovsky
Glenda Jackson
Antonina Milyukova
Max Adrian
Nicholas Rubinstein
Christopher Gable
Count Anton Chiluvsky
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