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THE BOY FRIEND
September 16, 2017  | By David Bianculli

TCM, 10:15 p.m. ET

 

This 1971 music is written and directed by Ken Russell, a director famous for his visual excess – yet in this movie, about an understudy of a musical who achieves stardom, those impulses are put to wholly appropriate use. The understudy, played by waifish fashion model Twiggy, not only dreams of stardom, but has fantasies about it – fantasies envisioned through Russell’s particular vision, which here salutes everything from the vintage choreography of Busby Berkeley to some of Russell’s own trademark tricks. Tommy Tune co-stars.

 
 
 
 
 
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