Late Flowering Lust (1994)

Original title

Late-Flowering Lust

Directed by

David Hinton

Genre

drama

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

53 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This television film adapts John Betjeman's poetry into a series of vignettes. Nigel Hawthorne performs the poems, with dancers and music bringing the verses to life.

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What happens

Late Flowering Lust is a television film starring Nigel Hawthorne, based on the poetry of John Betjeman. Produced by Caroline Speed and directed by David Hinton, it first aired on BBC2 on 8 May 1994. The film features performances by the dancers of Adventures in Motion Pictures, set to the music of Jim Parker. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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