Lisztomania

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Liam D A spiritual follow up to Tommy. This feels like it gets lost in the madness but with some great music plus beautiful costumes and production design Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 07/02/24 Full Review Alec B The first half has the right kind of wild, surreal energy (I like that from its first seconds the movie announces it has no interest in historical accuracy or good taste) but it becomes more labored and a bit boring in the second. At a certain point Russell's use of Nazi imagery seems less like a coherent thesis and more like an attempt to force meaning and commentary into this mess. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/24 Full Review Dave S Director Ken Russell made some monumentally bad movies over the course of his career, but at the top of his dung heap of cinematic garbage, one movie sits alone – Lisztomania. The film features Roger Daltrey as Franz Liszt, the 19th century Hungarian composer. There really is no plot to speak of as the movie is more a series of set pieces that may or may not be related to anything Liszt actually did during his life. It is filled with bad writing, bad acting, bad sets, annoying editing and enough phallic symbols to make you think it was thrown together by a horny 12-year-old schoolboy. There are a lot of movies out there that are entertainingly bad. Lizstomania isn't one of them. It is irritatingly bad and makes you wonder what the point of it all was. And that's the rub – there is no point. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 10/16/23 Full Review Audience Member The first half has the right kind of wild, surreal energy (I like that from its first seconds the movie announces it has no interest in historical accuracy or good taste) but it becomes more labored and a bit boring in the second. At a certain point Russell's use of Nazi imagery seems less like a coherent thesis and more like an attempt to force meaning and commentary into this mess. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review bill v During it's initial theatrical release, I saw this film with a friend. In the middle of the movie, he ran out of the theater, screaming "what am I doing with my life?" Looking forward to seeing the second half. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review william d As a fan of Ken Russell's previous outing, Tommy, I was looking forward to this one. Unfortunately, whereas Tommy has some semblance of coherence, Lisztomania is just a mess. I thought Roger Daltrey gave a good performance in Tommy, but if you think about it, he spent most of that movie as a blind deaf mute. Here he actually has to say lines. Roger Daltrey is no actor. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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