Ian Dury as Deflores
SYNOPSIS
The Changeling is a vortex of lust, corruption, murder, sex and death - based on the original story by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
Beatrice Joanna is the daughter of the most powerful man in Alicante. Already engaged to be married, she now falls in love with another young nobleman, and in desperation conspires with her father's servant, the hideously disfigured De Flores, to murder her fiancee. But having committed the crime, De Flores demands the reward of her virginity - and so begins the tragic spiral of lies, deception and murder.
The Changeling is based on
Middleton and Rowley's tragic drama which has been performed and
appreciated for over 300 years - yet never before brought to film.
Marcus Thompson's radical
adaptation shot in Alicante and Pinewood Studios, brings to life the
play's sardonic realism with a flamboyance of contemporary style.
Startling visual imagery combined with sumptuous sets, and costumes by
Elizabeth Emanuel, are underlined by a haunting soundtrack by Brian Gray
and Gary Moore, which transforms the work into a powerful and
electrifying cinema experience.
The final outcome is a
compelling and obsessive film - the story of two damned souls, Beatrice
and De Flores - that culminates in an orgy of madness, sex and death.