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Electrical Life Louis Wain | Interview with Dir. Will Sharpe

Felicity Beckett

01 Jan 22

Dir. Will Sharpe talks about the creation of Wain's World; the colours, the cast, the cats and curios from the Victorian age of discovery in which Louis Wain lived and created his singular works of art. The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is a love letter to this unusual and brilliant man navigating family, grief and mental illness in a world not quite ready for him.

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