The compelling and bizarre story of Tchaikovsky's life and music. In Ken Russell's own words: "It's the story of the marriage between a homosexual and a nymphomaniac.... (Full plot summary below)
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The compelling and bizarre story of Tchaikovsky's life and music. In Ken Russell's own words: "It's the story of the marriage between a homosexual and a nymphomaniac.
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| VarietyVariety StaffThe result is a motion picture that is frequently dramatically and visually stunning but more often tedious and grotesque. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeRussell did something with this biopic about a composer that no one had done to this degree (and rarely at all): He let the music shape and drive the film itself. |
| TV GuideTV Guide StaffDon't bother seeing this; just buy a few albums of music by Tchaikovsky and let it go at that. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyKen Russell's biopic of the legendary composer is distorted and excessive, but it's worth seeing. |
| Total FilmPhilip KempIt's unashamedly vulgar and, if you switch off critical filters, enormous fun. |
| Chicago ReaderDave KehrThis Ken Russell fantasia-musical biography as wet dream-hangs together more successfully than his other similar efforts, thanks largely to a powerhouse performance by Glenda Jackson, one actress who can hold her own against Russell's excess. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzChamberlain gives a surprisingly good performance. |
| Cleveland PressTony MastroianniThe movies have treated composers notoriously badly but few films have been quite so awful as this pseudo-biography of Tchaikovsky. |
| CinePassionFernando F. CroceThe picture all too readily settles for the prototype of Russell's anguished-artist aberrations, with the crassness of his formative BBC biopics magnified into gargantuan flailing. |
| User ReviewBenjamin PAnother criminally underrated movie. Ken Russell is an absolute genius, and this movie was made when he was in his prime. I've got this one on laserdisc, and it's my most prized LD. Brilliant and hallucinatory, but not literal biopic. The operatic, surreal "1812 Overture" sequence with cannons blowing off heads is quite the highlight. |
