Savage Messiah
July 26th, 2010 • Cinema • Fine Art

Ken Russell’s biopic (one of many he directed in the 70s), set in Bohemian Paris of 1910-15, was about eccentric Vorticist French sculptor Henri Gaudier (Scott Antony) and his relationship with older author Sophie Brzeska (Dorothy Tutin); Helen Mirren was featured as gloriously-nude model/suffragette Gosh Boyle posing and descending or ascending various staircases
