Shelley's Blaze

Jun 15, 2018

0h 59m

★ 8.0

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.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

France Culture

Radio France

MK2 Films

Shelley's Blaze Trailers

Cast

Percy Bysshe Shelley (voice)

Gaspard Ulliel

Narrator (voice)

Marianne Faithfull

Mary Shelley (voice)

Lola Peploe

Percy Bysshe Shelley (English voice)

Christophe Dilys

Docteur Polidori / Echos (voice)

Warren Ellis

Narrator / Sir Edward Trelawny (voice)

Jean-François Néollier

(voice)

Tanguy Blum

(voice)

Jérôme Ters

(voice)

Leopold Tobisch

(voice)

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