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#MELODY 1971 DVD PROFESSIONAL#
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#MELODY 1971 DVD TV#
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#MELODY 1971 DVD SERIES#
Melody is unashamedly sweet but its appeal extends beyond mere nostalgia it's a glimpse of an era when British cinema made contemporary, original films for children with nary a superhero, wizard or animated creature in sight.Although Gainsbourg and Birkin had appeared in a string of films since their magnetic collision in Pierre Grimblat’s Slogan, Melody was a bit of diversion from their collaborations since it’s a series of interwoven videos inspired by the Gainsbourgalbum. Puttnam lets slip that the original story was based on him meeting his future wife at school, a marriage that’s lasted as long as the movie. Something of a cult movie, Melody apparently inspired Alfonso Cuarón to become a film-maker, and Wes Anderson pays homage to it in Moonrise Kingdom. The film kickstarted several careers: even though it was a flop in the UK and US, it was huge in Japan and its success there bankrolled Puttnam's next few projects. The extras are a little basic – baldly-shot interviews with Hussein, Parker, Puttnam and Lester, but the anecdotes about the film’s production are fun. Their pop ballads soundtrack the tale of young lovers, paired well with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's Teach Your Children.
#MELODY 1971 DVD MOVIE#
Melody marked Parker’s debut in the British film industry, alongside David Puttnam, a first-time producer who used his acquisition of the Bee Gees’ song cycle as collateral to get the movie made. Together they helped first-time director Waris Hussein (moving from BBC drama) to create a naturalistic, low budget vision of summer in the city (with a foray to the Weymouth seaside).Īlmost documentary in its visual style – Hussein describes in one of the extras here how many of the action scenes were shot in one take – it was actually tightly scripted by Alan Parker, then making a living as an advertising copywriter. Credit must go to cinematographer Peter Suschitzky (son of Wolf, the acclaimed documentary photographer of London, and the cinematographer on Get Carter, among other films) and production designer Garvik Losey (son of Joseph). Mainly shot on location, the story plays out in Battersea churchyards, Trafalgar Square and sleazy Soho, council estates, railway edge lands and a musty school. Watching the newly-restored Melody is to take a time machine back to London in the late 1960s – post-war, pre-developers. Think Jules et Jim for an innocent, pre-teen audience mixed with a sprinkling of school anarchy à la Zero de Conduite and If., with character actor stalwarts Roy Kinnear, Keith Barron and Sheila Steafel thrown into the mix. Mark Lester and Jack Wild, then fresh off the megahit musical Oliver!, play two south London lads whose friendship is interrupted when one of them meets a girl ( Tracy Hyde, pictured below, in her debut role). Luckily this is not the case with Melody (also known under a distributor-enforced title as S.W.A.L.K.), unseen since its first release in 1971 when I was even younger than its central characters, a couple of 12-year-olds who fall in love much to their parents’ and teachers’ disapproval.