Dear Fran,
Thanks for this wonderfull news. I did watch this movie on BBC some years
back, but never recorded it. It was as usual from BBC very elegantly
costumes and i loved it.
This reminds me also of another play i once watched from BBC way back. It
was a play wich took place in 1680ies and the costumes were gorgeous, dont
remember the name of the author nor the name of the play, but it really
deserved to be on DVD two. Especially interresting because there was a
dressing scene, where the lady was very tightly laced in her stays.
Also i think it is so unfair that you english speaking people cant see the
tv series they made of the marriage of Gustav III. It was so wonderfull and
well played. They had hired english costumes and there were many many to die
for costumes in it. About the story is true i dont know, must admit that
swedish history is worse than my english history. Point of the story wich is
a 3 hour play is that the king dont know how to act when he is supposed to
make the poor danish princess pregnant. ( could be truth, i could imagine)
He has to force one of his closest servants into the bedchamber and help
him!
Remember the king was only 18 and he was broaght up by politicians and the
princess was only 16 years old (horrors) Sometimes we cant imagine how
horrifying and terrible it must have ben to be a monarch.
Bjarne
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Subject: [h-cost] For those who like "Dangerous Liasions"
There's a new DVD (though of a 1991 film) of a four-part BBC production of
"Clarissa," from the 18th-century novel by Samuel Richardson. Lovelace, a
nobleman and dedicated rake, obsessively pursues Clarissa, a bourgeois
paragon of moral virtue and therefore the ultimate challenge. Her greedy,
scheming, vindictive brother and sister combine to urge their parents and
wealthy uncle to force Clarissa into marriage with a rich, ugly airhead.
For the first time in her life Clarissa rebels and eventually has to seek
Lovelace's protection. He tries one elaborate scheme after another to
actually get her into bed. And finally . . .
Well, watch it!
Taut, menacing, sensual (with even incestuous overtones in Clarissa's
siblings' relationship), this film is almost as good as "Dangerous
Liasions." And probably a lot better than the novel, which is 1536 pages
in the Penguin edition and reputed to be one of the longest novels in the
English language, perhaps _the_ longest. I haven't read it and I'm not
going to, as I gather it gets quite tiresome.
But the film, with the action left in and much of the moralizing stripped
out, is another story.
Fran
Lavolta Press Books on Historic Costuming
http://www.lavoltapress.com
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