Savage Messiah

In 1970 Ken Russell shot The Music Lovers in Bath and a couple of years later came back for Savage Messiah.
We were living above our shop in Abbey Churchyard as they turned Shores Shoe Shop (now Binks) into an art gallery for Savage Messiah.
It was interesting to watch him directing the Dorothy Tutin scene, he let the actors do it as they felt, just making a few quiet suggestions at the end of each take.
I guess that he always used the same actors in many of his films and they knew what he wanted. A few weeks ago he came down for the Bath Film Festival and I had the pleasure of meeting and photographing this prolific genius of over 80 films.