TOMMY
Directed and Written by KEN RUSSELL
One thing is sure: there has never been a movie musical quite like Tommy, a weird, crazy, wonderfully excessive version of The Who's rock opera. Ken Russell is a film maker (Women in Love, The Devils) who glories in the kind of heightened visual absurdity that Tommy both invites and requires. Russell is also among the boldest of contemporary film makers. He fears nothing, including being bad, and he has often been. He is bad occasionally here, but it does not matter, finally. His unceasing visual imagination...
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