The Music Lovers (1971)

Directed by

Ken Russell

Genre

drama film, biographical film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2h 03m

Rated

R

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 56 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A highly stylized film about the life of Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It focuses on his career and personal relationships, including his marriage, as told through a very unconventional approach.

dramaticemotionalintensevisually overwroughtfreneticmelancholicchaoticromanticized

What happens

The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell and starring Richard Chamberlain and Glenda Jackson. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on Beloved Friend, a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was one of the director's biographical films about classical composers, which include Elgar (1962), Delius: Song of Summer (1968), Mahler (1974) and Lisztomania (1975), made from an often idiosyncratic standpoint. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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