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Format: VHS
Jan 1989
Rated R
Recording Mode: Dolby Surround
Sound: Surround, Stereo
89 min.
UPC: 028485160293 |
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Movie Description
In a candle-lit Victorian brothel, Oscar Wilde sips champagne as pretty prostitutes enact his latest play, "Salome." As Salome performs her Dance of the Seven Veils in exchange for the ruin of John the Baptist, life begins to imitate art and the story becomes a mirror of the life of its author.
Synopsis
Legendary Irish playwright Oscar Wilde attends an impromptu performance of his banned play "Salome"; the production is staged in a Victorian brothel, with the roles of Salome, John the Baptist, and King Herod all played flamboyantly by his prostitute pals -- both male and female.
Film Notes
Shot in Technicolor and Panavision.
Oscar Wilde wrote the play "Salome" in French. The English-language version used in the film was translated by director Ken Russell's wife, Vivian Russell.
Wilde's play was also turned into a German-language opera by composer Richard Strauss. A production of the opera is available on laserdisc with Karl Bohm conducting; Gotz Friedrich directed it, and it features Teresa Stratas, Hans Beirer, Astrid Varnay, and Bernd Weikl among the vocalists. Ken Russell was unable to use Strauss' music in "Salome's Last Dance" because the late composer's estate denied him permission. This was possibly due to the family's dissatisfaction with a previous Russell "Salome" project -- a program called "The Dance of the Seven Veils" which the BBC banned in 1969. Imogen Claire, the actress who played Salome in that ill-fated television production, portrays a Nazarean woman in "Salome's Last Dance." Without access to Strauss' music, Russell created his score out of a mosaic of classical themes from a variety of composers, including Delius and Debussy.
Several film versions of the Salome story have been made over the years. They include: "Salome" (USA/1923), a silent film directed by Charles Bryant; "Salome Where She Danced" (USA/1945), directed by Charles Lamont and starring Yvonne de Carlo; "Salome" (USA/1953), starring Rita Hayworth and Charles Laughton, directed by William Dieterle; and "Salomé" (France-Italy/1985) directed by Claude d'Anna.
Film was also known as "Salome's Last Night."
Industry Reviews
"...Russell possesses just the right mixture of innocence, passion and theatrical intelligence....[The casting] was a risk that pays off brilliantly..."
Canby
"...An outstanding film....Nickolas Grace is well-cast..."
Variety - Lor. (04/27/1988)
Quotations
"Bring me the head of John the Baptist." -- Salome (Imogen Millais-Scott)
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