The Attendant
MovieTitle | The Attendant |
User score | 4.4 |
Release date | Sep 10, 1993 |
Genre | Fantasy, Drama |
Director | Isaac Julien |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | Normal Films, Channel 4 Television |
Run time | 8 min. |
Memory mixes with desire as a museum attendant is caught up in sado-masochistic fantasies inspired by a 19th century painting of slaves in chains called Scene on the coast of Africa. The man remembers his past as a singer and delivers Dido's lament from Purcell's opera.