Late Flowering Lust (1994)

Original title

Late-Flowering Lust

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

53 min

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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