The Boy Friend (Russell, 1971): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.30pm
This film is part of the Ken Russell season at the Prince Charles. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Sandy Wilson’s nostalgic pastiche of 20s musicals is predictably
decorated by wizard of excess Ken Russell with the slightly soured
whipped cream of hommages to Hollywood musicals and memories of
his own days as a chorus boy. The seediness and squalor of backstage
life aptly deflate the onstage illusion, though blond and beautiful
premier danseur Christopher Gable is effortlessly elegant as the young
lead, and Twiggy brings a naive, crumpled charm to the part of the girl
who goes out a youngster and—naturally—comes back a star. With Max
Adrian and the incomparable Vladek Sheybal as De Thrill, the Hollywood
producer in the audience, whose fantasies are in tune with Russell’s
own.
Don Druker
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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