The Man Who Bought Mustique

Product Description Lord Glenconner (known before his peerage as Colin Tennant) is a Scottish lord who bought a tiny Caribbean island called Mustique for a song in 1956 and turned it into a playground for the rich and famous. For years, celebrities like Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Tommy Hilfiger and British royalty such as Princess Margaret and Prince Andrew flocked to the island for fun in the sun. But in the late 1970s the “Jet-Set Monarch” ran out of money, lost control of his island, and was banished to nearby St. Lucia. The documentary The Man Who Bought Mustique is a deliciously entertaining look at Glenconner, a man who has been called the “Basil Fawlty of the aristocracy” (London Daily Mail) and “Alec Guinness playing Lawrence of the Caribbean” (New York Observer). British filmmakers Joseph Bullman and Vikram Jayanti (When We Were Kings) follow the indomitable Glenconner as he visits his former island paradise for the first time in ten years. Equal parts high comedy and shock theatre, Tennant’s return stirs up old animosities and creates new ones. Long gone from Mustique, the return to his erstwhile kingdom is filled with gossip about its current inhabitants (“smug, small-minded people, mostly rather inept”), preparations for lunch with Princess Margaret (complete with erotic Kama Sutra wall-hangings), and best of all, Lord Glenconner’s endless hissy-fits directed at the filmmakers and other commoners. Hilarious, sly and charming, Lord Glenconner may be one man’s argument for reviving the guillotine and another’s swan song for “this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.” Review An almost perfect portrait of a poisonous toff! –New York MagazineNot only the most brilliant thing I’ve seen in ages, it was also one of the funniest! –Sunday Telegraph (London)Creepily fascinating! –New York Times