Four literary portraits from
Omnibus. This week: Anatomies
Images in the work of John Donne (1572-1631) starring Richard Pasco as Donne.
The age of King James I - courtly, extravagant, cruel. John Donne , poet, wit and notorious lover of women, has become the most celebrated preacher of his day, a star performer. But even as he confesses publicly to the sins of his youth, the images in his sermon consistently refer back to his poetry, some of the greatest celebrations of erotic love in the English language.
In this film the church itself becomes the setting for a series of memories from Donne's past which, he confesses, haunt him as he prays ... ' A memory of yesterday's pleasures ... an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain.'
... dazzling to look at ... illustrated with a remarkable freshness and aptness. (SUNDAY TIMES) As dazzling a dramatisation of an artist's fantasies as anything since Ken Rus sell's heyday ... an extraordinarily sensuous film. (TIME OUT) Film cameraman JOHN HOOPER Film editor PAUL HUMFRESS
Director LESLIE MEGAHFY
(Richard Pasco is an Associate Artist of the Royal Shakespeare Company)