Always on Sunday

Always on Sunday is a 1965 British television film directed by Ken Russell about Henri Rousseau. It was written by Russell and Melvyn Bragg for the Monitor series. Russell's first fully dramatised biopic, the narrator was Oliver Reed.

The part of Rousseau was played by painter James Lloyd who had never acted before. Russell said he would not have made the film had Lloyd not so closely resembled Rousseau. The director said: "Not only is there a strong physical resemblance but he and Rousseau are very much alike in character - strong and gentle."^[1]

Reception[]

The Guardian said it was made with "remarkable imaginative pungency".^[2]

References[]

^ BRIEFING/WHO & WHY: Dose of BBC jitters The Observer 27 June 1965: 18.
^ review: PATENT PENDING at the New Arts Theatre Club Malcolm, Derek. The Guardian 30 June 1965: 10.

External links[]

Always on Sunday at IMDb
Always on Sunday at BFI Screenonline
Always on Sunday at Letterbox DVD
Always on Sunday at Dialbolique

v t Works directed by Ken Russell
Films	French Dressing (1964) Billion Dollar Brain (1967) Women in Love (1969) The Music Lovers (1971) The Devils (1971) The Boy Friend (1971) Savage Messiah (1972) Mahler (1974) Tommy (1975) Lisztomania (1975) Valentino (1977) Altered States (1980) Crimes of Passion (1984) Gothic (1986) Salome's Last Dance (1988) The Lair of the White Worm (1988) The Rainbow (1989) Women & Men: Stories of Seduction (1990) Whore (1991) Mindbender (1995) The Fall of the Louse of Usher (2002) Trapped Ashes (2006)
Documentaries	John Betjeman: A Poet in London (1959) Gordon Jacob (1959) A House in Bayswater (1959) Pop Goes the Easel (1962) Elgar (1962) Watch the Birdie (1963) Bartok (1964) The Dotty World of James Lloyd (1964) The Debussy Film (1965) Always on Sunday (1965) Don't Shoot the Composer (1966) Isadora Duncan, the Biggest Dancer in the World (1966) Dante's Inferno (1967) Song of Summer (1968) Dance of the Seven Veils (1970) William and Dorothy (1976) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1978) The Planets (1983) Vaughan Williams: A Symphonic Portrait (1984) Ken Russell's ABC of British Music (1988) The Strange Affliction of Anton Bruckner (1990) The Mystery of Dr Martinu (1992) Alice in Russialand (1994) Elgar: Fantasy of a Composer on a Bicycle (2002)
Shorts	Peep Show (1956) Amelia and the Angel (1958) Segment "Nessun Dorma" in Aria (1987) The Insatiable Mrs. Kirsch (1993) The Lion's Mouth (2000) A Kitten for Hitler (2007)
TV movies	Prisoner of Honor (1991) The Secret Life of Arnold Bax (1992) Lady Chatterley (mini-series, 1993) Ken Russell's Treasure Island (1995) Dogboys (1998)

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