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Gentlemen’s Relish a BBC film written by David Nobbs and starring Billy Connolly and Sarah Lancashire based on the novel Kingdom Swann is available on DVD.
"Wonderful fun. Read this delightful comic book"
- Daily Mail
KINGDOM SWANN
Kingdom Swann, Victorian painter of the epic nude canvas turns to photography and records the erotic fantasies of a generation through the lens of the camera. Swann brings the nude to life. As a painter he was a genius – but as photographer he’s a criminal. A joyful satire on the smudged dividing line between reality and fantasy, art and pornography. Think you know the difference? Try it.
‘Woman will be the death of me,’ mutters Kingdom Swann, whistling through his whiskers. He is a large, impressive, old man with a wonderful wealth of beard. He wears a black frock-coat, unbuttoned to show a velvet waistcoat and a pair of nankeen pantaloons. At his throat he sports a necktie of crimson silk and his head is warmed by a Turkish skull-cap embellished with beads and silver threads.
‘Women will be the death of me.'
He looks up at the fat, nude woman hung by her wrists from a pillar. She wears nothing but iron chains. She has neat breasts, plump arms and heavy, fully fashioned thighs that hide a voluptuous nest of curls. Her face is flushed with rouge and flowers wilt in her tangled hair.
‘Are you ready, Mr Swann?’ she shouts, impatiently shaking her shackles.
Swann grunts, closes one eye and lets the hood fall over his head.
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