A surreal and profane 'biopic' about the life of composer Franz Liszt. But it's as if a David Bowie rip-off made an ungodly erotic and camp musical, based on a fever dream containing ideas from Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, This is Spinal Tap, Amadeus and Monty Python. And 1970s porn.
A berserk exercise of demented genius, and on that level (I want to make my praise explicit) it functions and sometimes even works. Most people will probably despise it.
Synopsis: In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.