The Music Lovers (1971)
Directed by Ken Russell
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.
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(To imagine this material in Stone's hands, recall the scene in Ken Russell's " The Music Lovers " where Tchaikovsky's head explodes during the "1812 Overture," then spin it out to feature length.)
The film sometimes almost functions as enjoyably overwrought trash cinema (a scene with Lane trying to "wash off" her infidelity in a train lavatory is so wildly over-the-top that it makes Tchaikovsky's nightmare honeymoon train trip in Ken Russell's The Music Lovers look like a ride in the back seat of a Rolls Royce), but it's all so deadly serious that this guilty pleasure aspect gets short-circuited.
The time frame of Withnail & I—1969—fits neatly between Robinson’s two acting gigs in 1968 and 1970 (the independent The Other People (1968) and the more mainstream The Music Lovers (1970)), and Paul McGann as the character “I” is the living image of Robinson at that time.
This is, at last, the movie that Ken Russell was born to direct the same Ken Russell whose wretched excesses in the past include “ The Music Lovers ,” “ The Devils ,” and “ Lisztomania .”