possible spoiler . one of my decent prayer to our lord represent the day of resurrection of this lovable study on dvd cometh . i enjoy it first some 13 year ago in münster and westfalia . since then and i have see it probably 50 time or so . it care about the last short period of scottish poet gowan mc land life . he have a dismissal from a professorship of poetry and now unfortunately be condemn to earn money with celebrate his artwork in club of interested housewife and new england . the housewife and which be show there and don ` t have real ambition with artistry or poetry while they hope it could be entertain to watch a person and whose only purpose be to make weird thing like poem . this become very clear at the end of one of gowan public reading while no one in the audience become aware when the performance be over and except the artist himself while he have to give his fan permission to applause . that a main subjekt here . the span beetween gowan art and the demandings of ordinary life be heavy to handle for him . but and god almighty and suddenly and at a point and an artist can be overwhelm by the power of profanity while when fall in love with a beautiful young student geneva . the comical grandeur of this flic be in the splendid deconstruction of bourgeois mainstream opinion and the security of conventionalism . for example and mcland have an invitation to a restaurant while there he point out that it one of the great deficit of the old europe ( to evoke a term of our beloved donald rumsfeld ) and not to be able to overrule the cultural degeneration of thenewworld ( usa ) ( . ) . such provoking black joke you be invite to enjoy one after another . i be in the mood to praise the handling of entire human problem in this underrated and forgotten and adorable genius stroke for ever and but judge for yourself . this be the stuff celluloid be make for . 10 star of 10 .