The Full Monteverdi (2007)
January 1, 2007Release Date
Plot.
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Cast & Crew.
Matthew Brook
Actor
Mark Denham
Actor
Samantha E. Hunt
Waitress
Carys Lane
Actress
Anna Crookes
Soprano
John La Bouchardiere
Director
Greg Browning
Producer
Greg Browning
Producer
Nicholas Mulroy
Tenor
Nick Gordon Smith
Cinematographer
Chloe Lamford
ProductionDesigner
Mair Joint
Costume Design
Robert Hollingworth
Music
Claudio Monteverdi
Original Music Composer
Ian Bouncer
Producer
Cate Hall
Makeup Department Head
Details.
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The Full Monteverdi is a 2007 British film written and directed by John La Bouchardière and based on his live production of the same name, itself based on Claudio Monteverdi's fourth book of madrigals (1603) which, in turn, is a collection of settings of poems by such Italian Renaissance poets as Giovanni Battista Guarini, Ottavio Rinuccini and Torquato Tasso. The film features the British vocal ensemble I Fagiolini and the original cast of actors from the live production. The title is a play on the name of the 1997 film The Full Monty – a pun vindicated, according to academic Peter Conrad, by The Full Monteverdi's "raw, emotional striptease".The plot concerns six couples who are breaking up simultaneously in a restaurant. During the course of their meals, revelations about the past drive the couples to separation. The apparently avant-garde structure and nonlinear narrative of the film are based in the musical material, which is often of highly contrapuntal polyphony, and follows the stories of the different couples in a manner similar to the vocal interchanges in the madrigals.