Stop All the Clocks: W.H. Auden in an Age of Anxiety

(2017)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2017

Runtime: 57 мин

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Adam Low

Cast: W.H. Auden, Alan Bennett

Plot

Thirty years after his BBC film The Auden Landscape, director Adam Low returns to the poet and his work. Following surges of popularity - from featuring in Four Weddings And A Funeral to being the poet New Yorkers turned to after 9/11 - Low reveals how Auden’s poetry helps us to better understand the 21st century and the tumultuous political climate in which we now live.