backdrop_path

    The Secret Life of Edward James

    54'

    1978-01-01

    N/A

    Overview:

    Documentary about Edward James, an aristocrat who patronized surrealist artists such as René Magritte, Leonora Carrington, and Salvador Dalí, among others. His life is a whole catalog of incredible moments that constitute the prelude to his final monument in the middle of the Mexican jungle: Las Pozas, a surreal garden filled with giant structures as useless as they are beautiful. James divorced his wife Tilly Losch in 1934, accusing her of adultery with Prince Serge Obolensky, an American hotel executive; her countersuit, in which she made it clear that James was homosexual, failed. James was actually bisexual. After the divorce, James joined a social set in England which included the Mitford sisters and the composer Lord Berners.

    DirectingPatrick Boyle

    Cast

    1

    Narrator

    George Melly

    1

    Readings

    Anthony Quayle

    Details:

    • Budget: 0
    • Home page
    • Revenue: 0
    • List of countries:
      1. United Kingdom
    • List of languages:
      1. English
    • List of companies:
      1. Associated Television
    • Vote Count: 0
    • Popularity: 0.3261
    • Status: Released
    • Original title:The Secret Life of Edward James

    Recommndations

    7.3

    Becoming Jane

    Though young Jane Austen's...

    7.1

    They'll Love Me When I'm...

    As his life comes to its end, famous...

    7.4

    Jim & Andy: The Great...

    Through the lens of his stunningly...

    6.0

    While We're Young

    An uptight documentary filmmaker and...

    6.7

    Motherless Brooklyn

    New York City, 1957. Lionel Essrog, a...

    6.0

    Final Portrait

    Paris, 1964. The Swiss sculptor and...

    5.8

    Little Ashes

    About the young life and loves of...

    6.4

    Just Before I Go

    Ted Morgan has been treading water...

    6.8

    An Unmarried Woman

    A wealthy woman from Manhattan's...

    7.4

    The Royal Tenenbaums

    Royal Tenenbaum and his wife Etheline...

    6.3

    Elegy

    Cultural critic David Kepesh finds...

    7.1

    Far from Heaven

    In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's...

    7.0

    The Strange Love of...

    Three childhood friends, Martha,...

    6.1

    Fur: An Imaginary...

    In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a...

    6.1

    Fierce People

    A massage therapist looking to...

    6.5

    Sunday Bloody Sunday

    Recently divorced career woman Alex...

    7.7

    Flow

    A filmmaker talks about his work and...

    6

    Factory Girl

    In the mid-1960s, wealthy debutant...

    6.1

    A Thousand Words

    Jack McCall is a fast-talking...

    6.6

    The Dark Corner

    Ex-con turned private investigator...