Mahler 1974 Trailer

From its stunning opening sequence, featuring Georgina Hale (Mahler s wife Anna) isolated in full mummy wrap and writhing with erotic yearning to the lush strains of her husband s music, Mahler distinguishes itself as the most poetic and archetypal of Russell s greatcomposer works. A cinematic response to Luchino Visconti s 1971 adaptation of Death in Venice, Mahler stars Robert Powell as the great Jewish romantic composer. Whilst the film is the least ostentatious of Russell s movies about music, it is hardly conventionala mix of lyrical tableaux and comic fantasy that adds up to a stirring, dreamlike experience.