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Lisztomania

Leave it to Ken Russell to explain almost all of modern mass culture (beginning, middle, and end) along with a good bit of European history through one massive coup de cinema: casting Roger Daltry as Liszt. So successful is the movie that after 30 minutes who can doubt that, whatever his other remarkable attributes, Liszt had pecs to die for.

 

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