Savage Messiah R
Story of the short, influential career of pre-World War I French sculptor Henri Gaudier and of his intimate yet platonic friendship with a Polish emigre 20 years his senior.
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 27, 2011
- Originally Released: 1972
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Dorothy Tutin, Scott Antony & Helen Mirren | |
| Performer: | Peter Vaughan & Lindsay Kemp | |
| Directed by | Ken Russell |
Entertainment Reviews:
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One of Russell's less successful art movies, still over-the-top in his trademark style, but not jaw-droppingly so.
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Film4
[Ken] Russell, without resorting to stomach-churning violence or mindboggling camera trickery, has proven himself a true master of cinematic vitality and versatility.
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Los Angeles Free Press
Rating: 3/4 --
You get to like Henri and Sophia, maybe more than they like themselves.
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Chicago Sun-Times
[With a] satisfying grittiness and vitality....[The film] shows the filmmaker's multi-textured style at its finest.
Sight and Sound
It's the sort of grade B melodrama that John Barrymore would have played heavily, hammily and stoned in his twilight years.
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Maclean's Magazine
Henri's interesting relationship with the ageing authoress Sophie Brzeska is lost in the director's overriding credo that both art and films are a matter of how much energy you exert.
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Time Out
Rating: 2/4 --
Russell takes the mystique away from art, but supplies nothing much in its place.
New York Times
Description by OLDIES.com:
The Music Lovers. Mahler. Valentino. In these and other films, Ken Russell explores the lives of artists and in turn finds inspiration for his own considerable cinematic creativity. Savage Messiah belongs to that Russell oeuvre and it draws from the filmmaker a work often studied in its pace yet exhilarating in its impact. It is the story of the short, influential career of pre-World War I French sculptor Henri Gaudier and of his intimate yet platonic friendship with a Polish emigre 20 years his senior. Scott Antony and Dorothy Tutin, perhaps better known to theater aficionados, play the two leads. Movie fans will readily identify the third-billed player: Helen Mirren in a memorable early-career role as a flamboyant, uninhibited suffragette.
Product Description:
This film tells the story of the relationship between eighteen-year-old painter/sculptor Henri Guadier and a woman twenty years his senior.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 5,500
- UPC: 883316331088
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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