Shelley's Blaze (2018)

8.0/10 59 min Drama History

Overview

A pictureless film in 3D sound full of political, poetic and incendiary echoes around the death and words of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an infamous young poet driven out of his country after kidnapping his future young wife, Mary Shelley, and who was found dead in 1822, at the age of 29, on the shore of Viareggio in Italy. This sound movie uses text, music and sophisticated sound design projected via 27 speakers to conjure powerful images in the listener's mind.

Cast

Gaspard Ulliel

Percy Bysshe Shelley (voice)

Marianne Faithfull

Narrator (voice)

Lola Peploe

Mary Shelley (voice)

Warren Ellis

Docteur Polidori / Echos (voice)

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