Handel's Last Chance is a 1996 film that was created by David Devine and Richard Mozer for HBO Original Films of New York. The film was directed by Milan Cheylov.
It stars Leon Pownall as George Frideric Handel, Tod Fennell as Jamie, Gerard Parkes as Jonathan Swift, Seana McKenna as Mary, and Cody Jones as Wee Hugh Brannigan.
Devine Entertainment's Handel's Last Chance is set in 1742 Dublin, where 10 year old Jamie O'Flaherty and the brilliant composer George Frideric Handel live. Jamie comes from a very poor family and has been caught stealing and he is in jail when the film opens. Handel, whose career is failing, needs his newest composition to be a big hit. By a stroke of destiny, the young boy and composer become unlikely allies. Handel gets Jamie out of jail and the boy lends his golden voice to the premiere performance of Messiah.
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“Herein is the explanation of the analogies, which exist in all the arts. They are the re-appearance of one mind, working in many materials to many temporary ends. Raphael paints wisdom, Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakspeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it. Painting was called “silent poetry,” and poetry “speaking painting.” The laws of each art are convertible into the laws of every other.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Love, Arthur, is a poodle’s chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.”
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894–1961)