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· Year: 1986
· Director: Ken Russell
· Writer: Stephen Volk
· Cast: Gabriel Byrne, Julian Sands
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· Based on true events.
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Amazon.com
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During nights of debauchery spent with Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and Dr. John Polidori, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin dreams up the horror of Frankenstein.
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RATING
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23
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The true story of a several great authors coming together for a holiday filled with philosophy and debauchery seems custom-made for Ken Russell, a director who often delights in purposeful bizarreness. It its strange visuals, religious imagery, and plot about drug addled literati, it is imbued with a wild sense of entitelement gone mad. It's also hideously confusing and bordering on nonsensical, filled as it is with nonsequitous dialogue delivered by a capable cast that nonetheless decides to overact. The focus in this film is on sex to the exclusion of real examination of any philosphy. Haunted Summer, a film that took a much more realistic approach to the same subject, was far more to my liking.
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