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Savage Messiah
UNITED KINGDOM · 1972

Savage Messiah

Ken Russell
artistic ambition creative partnership bohemian lifestyle avant-garde art unconventional relationships
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Synopsis

In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another a

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