Keep the Aspidistra Flying
Directed by Robert Bierman
Produced by BBC Film
A wry, character-driven comedy-drama about artistic ambition versus material reality, centered on a struggling poet's romance and his conflict between principle and survival.
Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and quits the ad agency, trying to live on his poems, but poverty soon comes to him.
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