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Apr 26, 2002 · Savage Messiah: Directed by Mario Azzopardi. With Polly Walker, Luc Picard, Isabelle Blais, Louis Ferreira. As a small-town social worker investigates a commune headed by a spiritual leader calling himself Moses, she discovers a dead child, sadistic rituals, and ruthless mental and physical abuse.
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Savage Messiah marked the motion picture debut of British actor Scott Antony. A July 1972 New York Times article on the film indicated that the film had an extremely modest budget of $705,000 and that producer/director Ken Russell owned half of it. Fearful of M-G-M taking control of the editing, which had occurred with other studios on earlier ...
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet ...
Savage Messiah (1972) The story of the short, influential career of pre-World War I French sculptor Henri Gaudier and of his intimate yet platonic friendship with a Polish émigré 20 years his senior. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started.
Savage Messiah (French: Moïse, l’affaire Roch Thériault) is a Canadian thriller-drama film, released in 2002. The film dramatizes the real-life story of Roch "Moïse" Thériault , a cult leader who was arrested in Burnt River , Ontario , in 1989.
Henri Gaudier is only 18 years old, a self-taught Parisian sculptor of enormous talent but prone to rash, exuberant behavior. Henri meets and begins a platonic but emotionally intense relationship with Sophie Brzeksa, a cultured Polish woman 20 years his senior.
Ken Russell's Savage Messiah uses the lynchpin of an unorthodox relationship to explore the importance of art more broadly. Henri is a consummate showman. An extrovert who enjoys being the centre of attention and tends toward making grand proclamations about the nature of what is or isn't worthwhile contributions to the art world.
