The Music Lovers Reviews

The Music Lovers, Ken Russell’s mad fantasia on the life of Russian composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, is fairly useless as a biographical film of its subject, but in terms of a splendid albeit unusually bizarre and sometimes even grotesque entertainment, it’s hard to match. “Over the top” is an expression that hardly does justice to Russell’s approach to this biographical cacophony, but the glorious music on the soundtrack coupled with enough surreal, captivatingly staged and shot sequences make this an unforgettable movie experience. If you can stomach Russell’s admittedly no-holds-barred cinematic technique, The Music Lovers is decidedly eye-popping.

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