The Music Lovers

1971

Biography / Comedy / Drama / Music

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 59% · 17 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74% · 500 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.2/10 10 3548 3.5K

composer biography historical figure male homosexuality 19th century gay theme

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Plot summary

Composer, conductor and teacher Peter Ilych Tchaikovsky struggles against his homosexual tendencies by marrying, but unfortunately, he chooses wacky nymphomaniac Nina, whom he is unable to satisfy.

Director

Ken Russell Photo
Ken Russell

Top cast

Kenneth Colley Photo
Kenneth Colley as Modeste
Harry Fielder Photo
Harry Fielder as Gentleman
Max Adrian Photo
Max Adrian as Rubinstein
Bruce Robinson Photo
Bruce Robinson as Alexei
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1.11 GB
1280*544
English 2.0
R
23.976 fps
2 hr 3 min
Seeds 2
2.28 GB
1920*816
English 5.1
R
23.976 fps
2 hr 3 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by R T 6 / 10

Directed and acted in what feels like a

Directed and acted in what feels like a pitch of fever, this is an overwrought but effective film.
Reviewed by R T 8 / 10

I need more Ken Russell in my life

I need more Ken Russell in my life. His films are weird, unique, cool, regal, purposeful, wild, modern, obnoxious, empathetic, uncomfortable, hilarious…there's never a dull moment. The heart this film has for closeted gay people is so far ahead of it time, showing the danger of pretending to be who you think people want you to be. It furthers the argument many storytellers make about composers, that they could be nightmares to those closest to them. Just wish there was more music composing / performing.
Reviewed by R T 4 / 10

Ostensibly like Tchaikovsky's own (and especially later) music

Ostensibly like Tchaikovsky's own (and especially later) music, the film vacillates wildly in tone, shifting from scenes of intense and serious passion to moments ebullient and blithe-unlike Tchaikovsky, however, Russell's film fails to strike a balance among the extremes and ends up being rather pathetic in the end. The topsy-turvy tonality fails to achieve the melodramatic import of lived experience that Tchaikovsky's work aspires to, instead coming across as ironic, inauthentic kitsch-the furthest thing from the romanticism at the heart of the music itself. Tellingly enough, the best sequences-the drunken sex scene in the train, in particular, which is absolutely fabulous-are those that embrace Russell's characteristic ironic bathos, exposing the vulgar absurdity at the hidden core of 19th Century sensibilities, rather than the more generic temptation here to see in Tchaikovsky an analogue for queer experience today.
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