Powder Her Face - La Monnaie / De Munt poster

Powder Her Face - La Monnaie / De Munt poster

Powder Her Face - La Monnaie / De Munt

2015 2h 00mMovie

Music

‘You could have a blow job aria – begins with words, ends with humming.’ Using the story of a public scandal, the librettist Philip Hensher inspired the 23-year-old British composer Thomas Adès to portray the fall of the libertine and notorious socialite beauty the Duchess of Argyll, remembered in history as the Dirty Duchess. Powder Her Face is inspired by a sex scandal in 1963 that shocked the British upper class.

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Mariusz Treliński

Director

Top Cast

Allison Cook

Duchess

Peter Coleman-Wright

Hotel Manager/Duke/Laundryman/Other Guest

Kerstin Avemo

Maid/Confidante/Waitress/Mistress/Society Journalist

Leonardo Capalbo

Lounge Lizard/Waiter/Priest/Rubbernecker/Delivery/Electrician