What is Petulia / The Music Lovers about?

PETULIA, 1968, Warner Bros., 105 min. Dir. Richard Lester. George C. Scott is a middle-aged physician who finds himself drawn into the mad, idealistic and desperately sad whirlwind life of Julie Christie, who is unhappily married to Richard Chamberlain (in one of his best early performances), at the height of San Francisco's Summer of Love. Beautifully photographed by Nicolas Roeg, and featuring brief, ultra-rare appearances in their prime by Janis Joplin (with Big Brother & The Holding Company) and The Grateful Dead. THE MUSIC LOVERS, 1970, MGM Repertory, 123 min. Dir. Ken Russell. Ken Russell applies his typically outrageous and original sensibility to the story of Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) and the woman (Glenda Jackson) he marries and abandons. Eschewing the usual biopic conventions, Russell follows the life of the great composer through expressionistic flashbacks, nightmares and fantasy sequences.

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What is Petulia / The Music Lovers about?: PETULIA, 1968, Warner Bros., 105 min. Dir. Richard Lester. George C. Scott is a middle-aged physician who finds himself drawn into the mad, idealistic and desperately sad whirlwind life of Julie Christie, who is unhappily married to Richard Chamberlain (in one of his best early performances), at the height of San Francisco's Summer of Love. Beautifully photographed by Nicolas Roeg, and featuring brief, ultra-rare appearances in their prime by Janis Joplin (with Big Brother & The Holding Company) and The Grateful Dead.
THE MUSIC LOVERS, 1970, MGM Repertory, 123 min. Dir. Ken Russell. Ken Russell applies his typically outrageous and original sensibility to the story of Tchaikovsky (Richard Chamberlain) and the woman (Glenda Jackson) he marries and abandons. Eschewing the usual biopic conventions, Russell follows the life of the great composer through expressionistic flashbacks, nightmares and fantasy sequences.