I sadly struggled to connect with this big screen adaptation of Dennis Potter’s television serial.
Steven Martin is a depressed sheet music sales man in the 30s, trapped in a marriage with a sexually repressed wife Jessica Harper, he instead finds lust and love on the road with Bernadette Peters a school teacher turned lady of the night.
Key scenes though out are earmarked by song and dance numbers, with the lyrical content performed mostly through lip synch, Rupaul would be so proud. It’s far from fun, flowers and a sunshine, with quite a dark read on it subject matter and Martin a far from sympathetic lead.
By all accounts the 70s BBC version is superior, so I shall endeavour to seek that out. Potter had at once point intended a collaboration with my filmmaking hero David Lynch with an adaptation of D M Thomas’s The White Hotel
I sadly struggled to connect with this big screen adaptation of Dennis Potter’s television serial.
Steven Martin is a depressed sheet music sales man in the 30s, trapped in a marriage with a sexually repressed wife Jessica Harper, he instead finds lust and love on the road with Bernadette Peters a school teacher turned lady of the night.
Key scenes though out are earmarked by song and dance numbers, with the lyrical content performed mostly through lip synch, Rupaul would be so proud. It’s far from fun, flowers and a sunshine, with quite a dark read on it subject matter and Martin a far from sympathetic lead.
By all accounts the 70s BBC version is superior, so I shall endeavour to seek that out. Potter had at once point intended a collaboration with my filmmaking hero David Lynch with an adaptation of D M Thomas’s The White Hotel
