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‘The Extraordinary Miss Flower’ Review: A Stash Of Secret Love Letters Inspires A Psychedelic Musical Biopic – London Film Festival
The Extraordinary Miss Flower’ review: A stash of secret love letters inspires a psychedelic musical biopic – London Film Festival
Katz gave a similarly metatextual role in her own experimental music biopic, Delia Derbyshire: The Myths and Legendary Tapes(2020); here, her scenes find her literally in dialogue with Torrini, and their interactions sparkle. Torrini’s lyrics can seem a little literal at first — and, like the cut-up technique used by novelist William S. Burroughs, take some getting used to — but the band’s ethereal music, together with Kate Coyne’s endearingly strange choreography, works in tandem to create an unexpectedly seductive experience. Although the film comes in at well under 90 minutes, it takes its time to fill us in on the rudiments of Geraldine’s life (she was born in 1947, to Australian and Irish parents, before moving to London at 21) and does so in a parody of a ’70s educational TV show, hosted by Alice Lowe.
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