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Little Birds review – Anaïs Nin adaptation is risque and resonant
Aug 4, 2020
I t says nothing good about the age I am or the one we are living in that the thing I find most erotic about Anaïs Nin ’s famously risque short stories is that she was paid a dollar a page by “a collector” to write them. Adjusted for inflation, it’s a rate freelancers today would weep to see and I would like to take this opportunity to state that if there is still any market for bespoke written erotica, I am available for hire.
It will be interesting to see if there is still a market for visual erotica, the appeal of which is at least part of the raison d’etre behind Sky Atlantic’s new drama series Little Birds , based on Nin’s second collection of stories.
The six-part series follows cosseted Wasp princess and heiress to an arms manufacturing fortune Lucy Savage (Juno Temple) as she leaves the dysfunctional parental home – her father is conscienceless and controlling, and her mother, as a result, is a tranquillised, alcoholic, perfectly styled wreck – for Tangier. And, if she but knew it, an even more dysfunctional life married to impoverished lord Hugo Cavendish-Smyth (Hugh Skinner).
Hugo is gay, deeply closeted – we are in 1955 – and in love with Egyptian prince Adham Abaza (Raphael Acloque), who reacts badly to the news that a wife is on the way. Lucy is seduced by Morocco and, in the absence of any equivalent endeavour by her husband, falls ever more gladly under its spell. It turns out that a year’s worth of experimental medication you are given by your doctor, in secret cahoots with your father, to free you from “troublesome behaviours and distracting wants” can only do so much in the face of a land full of hitherto unsuspected delights and fabulous degenerates.
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