Hello Steemians, I was lucky enough to be invited to one of the early screenings of this British film " Interlude in Prague" released a couple of months ago which is now available on Amazon DVD or streaming. It is a wonderful story about Mozart, but there the comparison with Amadeus stops (except in them both being great films). This one is not a biopic but an intense dark dramatic thriller set in a week of Mozart's life in Prague while he was writing Don Giovnai and has an affair with a soprano. Despite the sumptuous costumes it is shot more like a horrror movie with long close up shots than a Merchant Ivory movie. A shocking parallel set of events to Don Giovani unfold in real life and the film shows how Mozart got the inspiration for Don Giovani. There are many unexpected moments.
The photo still isn't mine is of the costumes by Pam Downe (who many will remember for her gorgeous costumes in Orlando) are lavish and sumptuous as you can see from the still above.Discerning food and travel were given their company's permission to use the photo if we mentioned Pam Downe - which we want to anyway as the costumes are so amazing. The acting (Mozart is played by Aneurin Barnard, the evil aristrocrat by James Purefoy, and the heroine by Morfydd Clark) is taut and exciting and the shots John says are done more like a horror film, moving away from the colour schemes of BBC period dramas and replacing the long panning shots of such dramas with close ups and fast cutting that add tremendous tension. Morfydd Clark has been dubbed the rising new star of 2017 by the Guardian: among other recent performances, she starred in Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Donmar and ended 2016 by playing Cordelia opposite Glenda Jackson’s King Lear at the Old Vic. The film is visually beautiful, dramatically engrossing, musically coherent and loyal to Mozart – and in two words, simply wonderful.
Here's the trailer
Forgive me if you see this twice. After 15 minutes in movies no one seemed to have seen it so I thought I'd try and re-post it in photography instead.