The Music Lovers

[Machine Translation] If a dream that never awakens is love... Ken Russell's masterful portrayal of the intense life of the great composer, Tchaikovsky. This epic poem, which was only released on VHS in Japan for a long time, has finally been released on DVD! Ken Russell, the brilliant director of "Women in Love" ('69), "Tommy" ('75), and other films that have garnered enthusiastic support for their luminous imagery and radical auteurism, has created a complete film about the dramatic life of the great Russian musician Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky's lust for his best friend Anton, his irascible love for his wife Nina, and his heart's cry for a mother. Tchaikovsky's devastating love for Anton, his best friend, is portrayed in an eccentric and scandalous manner with overwhelming passion and explosive brilliance. Tchaikovsky, who struggles with love, is played by Richard Chamberlain, who was an idol in the U.S. in the 1960s and appeared in popular films such as "The Towering Inferno" ("The Towering Inferno") ("The Towering Inferno") ('73). Nina, the wife who goes mad because her husband does not want her, is played by Glenda Jackson, a leading British actor who won two Academy Awards for Ken Russell's "Women in Love" and "Weekend Love" ('73), and who sadly passed away in 2023. The insanity and sex-filled screaming at the end of the film have become legendary, and it is often called "Ken Russell's best film. --One snowy night, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, a teacher at the Moscow Conservatory, spends the night with his best friend, Count Anton Shilovsky. Their relationship is rumored throughout the conservatory, and Tchaikovsky's future as a musician is put in jeopardy. In order to break off his relationship with Anton, he decides to marry Nina, a female student who has a passionate interest in him. But this is the beginning of a tragedy... A leaflet explaining the film is enclosed (Contribution: Kiichiro Yanagishita / film critic).

Special Feature / Bonus Track: trailer

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醒めない夢が、愛ならば 鬼才ケン・ラッセルが描く偉大なる作曲家チャイコフスキーの苛烈なる人生。チャイコフスキーの美しい旋律で彩られた絢爛たる叙事詩、日本では長い間、VHSのみのリリースだった破壊的傑作がついにDVD化! 『恋する女たち』(69)『Tommy/トミー』(75)など煌びやかな映像と過激な作家性で熱狂的な支持を集める鬼才ケン・ラッセルが、ロシアが生んだ偉大な音楽家ピョートル・イリイチ・チャイコフスキーの劇的なまでの生涯を完全映画化。チャイコフスキーが親友アントンに抱く欲情、妻のニーナへのいびつな愛情、そして母を希求する心の叫び。ひとりの人間であるチャイコフスキーが内に秘める破滅的な愛を、圧倒的な熱量と爆発的な才気でエキセントリックかつスキャンダラスに描き出してゆく。愛に喘ぎもがくチャイコフスキーを演じるのは、60年代のアメリカでアイドル的人気を博し、『タワーリング・インフェルノ』(73)などの人気作に出演したリチャード・チェンバレン。夫に求められず発狂する妻ニーナを演じるのは、ケン・ラッセル監督『恋する女たち』と『ウィークエンド・ラブ』(73)で2度のアカデミー賞を受賞し、2023年に惜しくもこの世を去ったイギリスを代表する俳優グレンダ・ジャクソン。終盤の狂気と性に満ちた阿鼻叫喚の展開は伝説化しており「ケン・ラッセルの最高傑作」との呼び声が高い。 ――雪のある夜、モスクワ音楽院の教師であるピョートル・チャイコフスキーは、親友のアントン・シロフスキー伯爵と一夜を共にする。彼らの関係は音楽院の中でも噂され、チャイコフスキーは音楽家としての未来が危ぶまれる事態になってしまう。彼はアントンとの関係を断ちきるため、自分に熱烈に好意を向ける女子学生のニーナとの結婚を決める。しかしそれが悲劇の始まりだった・・・。作品解説リーフレット封入 (寄稿: 柳下毅一郎/映画評論家)。

映像特典: オリジナル予告編