It's a very dark depressing film.
Her mother forces her into prostitution as a child.
She ends up going insane and is confined to a mental institution.
There's some very horrid scenes.
It's a rather ugly film, but a great one.
Anyone remember this movie?
Sounds like The Music Lovers. i remember she ends up in a mental hospital. A brutal Ken Russell film.
shareBut that wasn't a great film, it was a ridiculous mess!
I've never seen that film but I looked it up.
"The Music Lovers" is based on the life of the composer Tchaikovsky.
In the film I referenced, Glenda Jackson is the main character. In focuses more on her relationship with her mother and her sexual exploitation by men. I don't think that's it.
Okay SnuSnu, you are correct. I found a review which describes what I remember. Glenda Jackson's character is a nymphomaniac who ends up in a mental institution having sex with all the lunatics.
Ugly film.
There's a scene where Jackson lays on a grill on top of an underground cell full of crazy men who give her cunnilingus.
Meanwhile his wife begins to slip mentally and has affairs with men she believes to be other famous composers. Actually they are men from the street brought in by her mother who is collecting money for the service.share
Russell wraps up the whole package by having Nina go mad and die in an insane asylum in a scene that outdoes "Marat-Sade." This enables Tchaikovsky to call his Sixth Symphony the Pathetique. Actually his wife outlived him by many years.
http://www.clevelandmemory.org/mastroianni/tm088.html