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Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter

Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter (2011)

April. 12,2011
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5.5
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The great composer of The Planets, Gustav Holst also taught himself Sanskrit, lived in a street of brothels in Algiers, cycled into the Sahara Desert, and allied himself during the First World War with a ‘red priest' who pinned on the door of his church "prayers at noon for the victims of Imperial Aggression". He hated the words used to his most famous tune "I Vow to Thee My Country" because it was the opposite of what he believed, and died before the age of 60 - broken and disillusioned.

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UnowPriceless
2011/04/12

hyped garbage

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Moustroll
2011/04/13

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Bergorks
2011/04/14

If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

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Fleur
2011/04/15

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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