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Late Flowering Lust: Directed by David Hinton. With Nigel Hawthorne, Richenda Carey, Jonathan Cecil, Rosie Allen. This movie is a combination of mime and dance that accompanies the "voiced-over" lyrics of a selection of poems by John Betjeman. Altogether, this movie portrays the events of a weekend party at an English country house.
- (21)
- Drama
- David Hinton
- 1994
- Stanza One
- Stanza Two
- Stanza Three
- Stanza Four
- Stanza Five
- Stanza Six
- Stanza Seven
Betjeman begins ‘Late Flowering Lust‘ by characterizing himself in his later age as a shadow of his former youth. He presents himself with bad breath, ‘bald’ and unshaven, elevating the more grotesque parts of himself. The choice of characterizationis self-deprecating, yet sets up the idea of the decrepit nature of the man. Betjeman presents himsel...
Betjeman presents himself comically as a little drunk during the poem, the ‘brandy-certain aim’ further adding to the unattractive presentation Betjeman has already fostered in this first stanza. The focus on ‘maybe’ reflects the loss of passion, linking to the lovers’ old ages. There is no raw sexual energy exhumed here, with the faint response be...
In stanza three of ‘Late Flowering Lust’, Betjeman uses the gothicimage of two ‘skeletons; to represent the two lovers. Death lurks over the couple, with passion dissolving into fear. The lovers are little more than human husks, degenerating as the poem progresses.
Betjeman furthers his degenerate presentation of the two lovers. Their hollow ‘dark sockets’ disturb the reader, the ‘emptiness’ of the characters unsettling. Again, the harsh distinction between past and present is explored by Betjeman. ‘Once was loving-eyed’ has now degenerated into this disgusting image of a hollow eye socket. Betjeman subverts ...
The verb ‘cling’ is strong against the passivity of the proceeding stanzas. The word could be emblematicof how the two lovers are ‘cling[ing]’ to life. Stanza seven supports this reading, further exploring how close they are to death. It seems that within this ghastly world, the two lovers only have themselves left, ‘cling[ing]’ to one another in d...
Stanza seven of ‘Late Flowering Lust‘ is fractured and truncated by the implementation of caesura and end stop. Whereas other stanzas flow easily, the rhyme and enjambmentpushing the reading on, this stanza is stagnated. Betjeman’s sense of panic at not knowing when he will die is palpable. The questioning tone, ‘week?’ ‘Remain?’, ‘death?’, ‘breath...
Betjeman returns to the idea of ‘cling’, yet this time describes it as ‘too long’. It seems that they are but moments from death, their love cut short. When each moment is one closer to death, Betjeman reflects on how precious his time is, the deft ‘too’ echoing hauntingly. The eponymous final line, ’late-flowering lust’ is an apt line and title as...
8. Mai 1994 · Late Flowering Lust. Home. Watch now. Lyrical comedy-drama, inspired by some of Sir John Betjeman's poems, combining music by Jim Parker with dance and the words of Betjeman, spoken by the...
26. Juli 2012 · NervousEnergy. 2.21K subscribers. Subscribed. 471. 100K views 11 years ago. No copyright infringement is intended.This film is now out of print, and literally impossible to acquire online or in...
- 54 Min.
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23. Jan. 2017 · This essay seeks to challenge both of these assertions, and by so doing achieve a more nuanced appreciation of Betjeman’s writing, through an original reading of ‘Late-Flowering Lust’, a poem that – at first glance – would appear to provide strong evidence for the prosecution’s case.
- Tim Hancock
- 2017
2. Apr. 2008 · 40. 11K views 15 years ago. Clip 1 from LATE FLOWERING LUST (Choreographed for BBC TV by Matthew Bourne in 1993 -- inspired by the poetry of John Betjeman) Starring Nigel Hawthorne and...
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5. Nov. 2011 · Maybe senile satyriasis is the only thing we have to look forward to. That sentence is like life in that it ends on a preposition. Middle-aged Lovers is by...
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