Salome's Last Dance
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In Theaters : 01 June, 1988 |
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May it indeed be the last
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It's interesting to see this movie getting so many good reviews, because among my friends, it's known as the film that's only bearable to watch on fast-forward.
This film is sensationalist, yet boring--it attempts to follow in the steps of Jarmann, but is not nearly so inventive.
The person playing Salome was horrible, reducing her wonderfully paradoxical character in Wilde's play to nothing more than a Lolita knock-off with an oral fixation, with only one tone of voice for all of her lines.
Most of the sequences actually relating to Oscar Wilde were historically wrong--which could be borne easily enough--but also unimaginatively vulgar, and demeaning--which cannot. I wouldn't be surprised if the take on Wilde and his circle portrayed here was based in large part on "Teleny"--an "erotic novel" (I use both terms loosely) that has popularly been attributed to him, but which was most likely a simple (and poor) imitation of his style.
This film might be interesting as a curiousity, but it does Wilde's beautiful play no justice. |
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