Topsy-Turvy

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de Mike Leigh

Type: Scénario
Sujet: Un Film > Topsy-Turvy
Mots Clés: Mike Leigh, scenario
Année d'édition: 2000
Editeur: Faber & Faber
Collection: Classic Screenplays
Langue: anglais

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Broché • 139 pages
13,5 x 22 cm

ISBN-10 ISBN-13

0-571-20206-3
978-0-571-20206-5

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Description de l'ouvrage :
In Topsy-Turvy Mike Leigh, that master of contemporary British tragi-comedy, transports us back to 1880s London and the lives of those much-loved masters of comic opera, Gilbert and Sullivan. Leigh explores the collaboration of lyricist Gilbert, a complex individual childlessly married to a devoted wife and composer Sullivan, a brothel-hopping bon viveur with an American mistress. Having enjoyed a stream of successes, they abruptly suffer an unprecedentedly lukewarm press for their newest opus, Princess Ida. Owing impresario D’Oyly Carte a hit, the increasingly frustrated Gilbert finds Sullivan’s ideas increasingly far-fetched and ‘topsy-turvy’. Then, Gilbert’s wife lures him to a London exhibition of Japanese culture, and he perceives the inspiration for The Mikado.

À propos de l'auteur :
Born in Salford, Manchester, in 1943, Mike Leigh has developed a unique method of creating films through controlled improvisations. After his debut Bleak Moments (1971) he made a succession of admired TV plays, including Abigail’s Party and Nuts in May. He then returned to feature films: High Hopes (1988), Life is Sweet (1990), Naked (1993). Secrets and Lies won the…

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