![]() ![]() After much toil, Wilde debuts a stage comedy in London, and a chat at the theater with Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas (Jude Law) leads to a full-on romance. Apart from a sprinkling of Wilde's legendary bons mots and a few fleeting visits to theatres where audiences cheer Lady Windemere's Fan, there is disappointingly little here to suggest the complexity of his mind, the range of his writing or, crucially, the importance of being Oscar. 1997 115 min TV14 Drama, Biography Feature Film SD Oscar Wilde (Stephen Fry) is a married writer who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. The courtroom drama phase, in which Oscar's hassles with the beastly Marquis of Queensbury (Tom Wilkinson as Bosie's pater) lead to exposure, scandal, Reading gaol and impoverished exile, is more compelling but not the dramatic equal of 1960's The Trials Of Oscar Wilde with Peter Finch. Once Oscar sets eyes on the beauteous and dissolute Lord Alfred Douglas, the infamous "Bosie" (Law, so petulant a prat you despair immediately for our gentle hero), he never seems to do any work as his beloved introduces him to the Victorian equivalent of kerb-crawling, male brothels and an endless round of soirees at which effete nude youths pose and pout. Wilde first attempted to quash the rumors about her. Together they swish around in artistic wardrobes, produce an heir and a spare, and sparkle among the glitterati.Įre long, though, the emphasis switches to Wilde's homosexuality. As does the movie, and everyone who worked so hard on it.' Olivia Wilde has dismissed reported 'Don't Worry Darling' tension with Florence Pugh. Oscar is ready to oblige in the first department by wedding the admiring and comforting Constance (Ehle), a sympathetic audience for his unconventional ideas. Don’t Worry Darling, the latest film from actor/director Olivia Wilde has been receiving a lot of attention as of late but mostly due to a few controversies involving its cast. Still, his mother (Vanessa Redgrave in hideous red wig) has a future mapped out for him that includes marriage and a career in parliament. Oscar is shown as an outsider in London society from the start. His later films were of varying quality, and he ended his career in near-cameos in minor adventure films. However, whole chunks of Gilbert's handsome, painfully tasteful erotic biopic are the one thing Oscar wasn't - boring. He is impressive and moving in this account of Wilde's rise and ruin. As one wit playing another, Stephen Fry comes across surprisingly right, cutting a flamboyant but stressed figure as the great Oscar Wilde.
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