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6.9/10
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Biographical movie of the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.Biographical movie of the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.Biographical movie of the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
- Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 nomination total
Allan Corduner
- Newspaper vendor outside library
- (uncredited)
Harry Fielder
- Angry Man in Crowd
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaEarly in this movie, Henri Gaudier (Scott Antony) is seen in the employ of a certain Mr. Saltzman (Otto Diamant), who hires him, not to create original works as he would like, but to make copies of other people's work. This may be a private joke on producer and director Ken Russell's part, as the producer Harry Saltzman had some years earlier hired him, ostensibly with a view to producing one of Russell's personal projects (a movie about Tchaikowsky), but in fact to make the third movie in the "Harry Palmer" film franchise, Billion Dollar Brain (1967). Russell eventually made the Tchaikowsky movie (The Music Lovers (1971)) without Saltzman.
- GoofsSophie, a native speaker of Polish, is shown mispronouncing the Polish word rysowac' 'to draw': she says REE-so-vak although the correct Polish pronunciation is (approximately) rih-SOH-vats' (with the final -ts' sound pronounced palatalized, almost like -tch).
- Quotes
Sophie Brzeska: My book is about sleep; that thick oily substance. Under the surface you float; half dreaming, half waking. Hidden, you hope, yet the world comes though. You cannot imagine the ways I've evolved to abolish myself there... under the surface. Half sleeping. Half waking. Leaving your worries and your clothes asleep. But the rent never sleeps and time never sleeps.
- ConnectionsFeatured in A British Picture (1989)
- SoundtracksTWO FLEAS
Composed by Dorothy Tutin
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It's about art and the love for art, but not artistically shot as other Russell films. On a scale from 1 to 10( Lisztomania being 10, the maximum Russell), this one is probably a 3. The two main characters has an unique and interesting relationship, but not amicable since they are both loud, rude and crazy. They are annoying and not very enjoyable to watch. For someone who lives in NYC, they do remind me of the frantic hipsters I see on the streets everyday... On a scale from 1 to 10( Women in Love being 10, the maximum enjoyable, for me anyways), this one is likely a 3 also. However after some research I found out that both of them have mental illness(No way!). I wish I knew that before so maybe I would have enjoyed the movie more? The lines are very good, values too(10 outta 10), if you love art you are bond to adore this movie, one way or another.
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- Runtime1 hour 37 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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