Always on Sunday
- Episode aired Jun 29, 1965
- 45m
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7.5/10
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Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.Always On Sunday is a bio-pic on Le (Henri) Douanier Rousseau, a French naive painter.
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Jacqui Cook
- Mere Ubu
- (as Jacqueline Cooke)
Izabella Telezynska
- Josephine
- (as Isa Teller)
Oliver Reed
- Narrator
- (voice)
Susan Sontag
- Self
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaThe part of Henri Rousseau is played by James Lloyd, not the small-part actor of that name, but a real-life artist who worked as a railwayman during the week and created elaborate paintings (in the "pointilliste" style) on Sundays. These had been acclaimed and exhibited and Ken Russell had made a documentary film about him for the "Monitor" series, so when he later moved on to making a drama-documentary about Rousseau, he thought of asking Lloyd, as a sort of British equivalent to the French artist, to play the lead.
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a marvellously infectious documentary presents itself for our delectation.
I really enjoyed this. Its a taken for granted that Ken Russell can get a little carried away in his enthusiasm for his subject sometimes to the detribute of the project in hand. On occasion that excitement can lead to greatness, as with The Devils, Savage Messiah and here with poor neglected Sunday painter, Henri Rousseau. I knew little of the man and so was immediately drawn in to the wonderful little tale of the wonderful little man who kept at it despite the odds (remind you of anyone?) until eventually, after all the mockery and derisive comments, gains the recognition of the surrealists in general and Picasso in particular. As Rousseau's expertise grew, his pictures, still displaying the childlike naivety, began also to take on the feeling of dreams and the workings of the subconscious. Ken Russell's playful, experimental and amusing presentation fits perfectly with the subject and a marvellously infectious documentary presents itself for our delectation.
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- christopher-underwood
- Dec 9, 2019
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- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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