Dante’s Inferno by Ken Russell

AFG Film Club presents at Byron’s Art Library
(31/184 Moskovyan Str.)
September 2 – September 30, 2017
ART DOCUMENTARY SERIES - SEPTEMBER 2017 PROGRAM
THE KEN RUSSELL COLLECTION:
The Great Composers & The Great Passions
* Programs are free of charge, but seating is on a first-come, first-seated basis.
* Films are screened in original language with English subtitles.
* DVDs for the program are from Khachatur Aloyan’s (USA) collection.
Saturday, September 23, 2017 at 14:00
DANTE’S INFERNO
1967, UK, PG-15, 88 min, Documentary / Biography / Music, BR
Director: Ken Russell
Stars: Oliver Reed, Judith Paris, Andrew Faulds
A movie about jealousy, and the complex and painful relationship between Rossetti and his sickly wife, Elizabeth. They are members of the upper-crust layer of society, bourgeois painters, poets and philosophers. Rossetti struggles with his own emotions for his wife, as she refuses his sexual advances before they marry, and, once they do marry, she is unable to bear him any children. She believes he has impregnated another woman (a model), commits suicide, and, as he chooses to bury his best poems with her coffin, he is driven insane when confronted with the idea of exhuming her coffin and retrieving the book to sell to his fans.