The Music Lovers The Music Lovers The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on "Beloved Friend", a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was one of the director's biographical films about classical composers, which include "Elgar" (1962), "Delius: Song of Summer" (1968), "Mahler" (1974) and "Lisztomania" (1975), made from an often idiosyncratic standpoint. Much of the film is without dialogue and the story is presented in flashbacks, nightmares, and fantasy
The Mirror (1975 film) that Tarkovsky himself "always maintained that he used the laws of music as the film's organisational principle...emphasis placed not on the "logic", but the "form", of the flow of events." Critic Antti Alanen billed the film as a "space odyssey into the interior of the psyche" and Tarkovsky's "In Search of Lost Time". Howard Hampton argued that the work's central subject is "the inescapable persistence of the past." Bibliography The Mirror (1975 film) Mirror (; known in the United States as "The Mirror") is a 1975 Russian art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is loosely autobiographical, unconventionally structured, and