Wilde
1998VOTE NOW
| BIM Distribuzione | Release Date: May 1, 1998 |
Starring:
Gemma Jones, Ioan Gruffudd, Jennifer Ehle, Jude Law, Judy Parfitt, Michael Sheen, Stephen Fry, Tom Wilkinson, Vanessa Redgrave, Zoë Wanamaker
Summary:
The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life after he discovers his homosexuality.
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Stephen Fry's elegantly wry performance as Wilde ranks among the best acting of the year so far, elevating what could be a simple impersonation into the embodiment of a person too smart for his surroundings and too tempted by the ways of the flesh. [26 Jun 1998, p.10]
Wild demonstrates that even a workaday movie can become something special when blessed with once-in-a-lifetime casting and a couple of dozen hilarious one-liners. [19 Jun 1998, p.32]
Stephen Fry gives a convincing performance as Oscar Wilde in this biopic based on the 1987 Richard Ellmann biography. But the film focuses less on Wilde's talents as poet and playwright and more on the breakup of his marriage and family as a result of his infatuation with Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas. [12 Jun 1998, p.B2]
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