updated: 27/09/2006
Prosthetic dentures and veneers are usually associated with vampires and cheap gags. In fact they have a wide range of uses in the movies including: assisting old-age makeup to give an aged look; altering the shape of the face or mouth; creating the look of damaged, uneven or missing teeth; simulating injury; giving the appearance that the character has gold teeth or wears dentures.
Love is the Devil: Muriel Belcher (Tilda Swinton) was the founder and proprietress of a private drinking club known as the Colony Room in Soho; the ‘Room’ achieved a certain notoriety both for its clientele, which included Francis Bacon and other artists, and for its bilious decor. I’m not quite sure why Tilda adopted such an unedifying look to play Muriel: the only description I have refers to her as a foul-mouthed but ‘handsome, Jewish dyke’. Jacquetta Levon was the makeup designer.