"Film that grips like an octopus" (Daily Express)
"Russell's ideas, carried out with superb boldness and certainty of technique, worked marvellously in terms of pictures and music." (Daily Mail)
"...explodes like an extravagant and unpredictable firework." (Sunday Telegraph)
Sunday Night offers another chance to see Ken Russell's award-winning feature on the strange circle of wives, mistresses, and friends surrounding the life and music of the French composer.
With Oliver Reed as Debussy, Vladek Sheybal as Pierre Louys
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(Boulez on Debussy: tomorrow on BBC-2 at 8.50 p.m.)