Review of Salome's Last Dance (1988) by Donald Mckinney — 10 Jul 2008
One of Ken Russell's forgotten 80's films, a little low-budget piece set in 1892. It has Oscar Wilde (Nickolas Grace), coming a brothel owned by Alfred Taylor (Stratford Johns), to watch a production of his recently banned play, Salome, which is perf.
..(read more) ormed by prostitutes. It features Wilde's homosexual lover Lord Alfred Douglas (Douglas Hodge) as John The Baptist, and Lady Alice Kensington-Windsor (Glenda Jackson) as Herodias, what follows is a performance of Salome, with Wilde watching.
It's structure is not a million miles away from what Russell did with The Boy Friend (1971), only this is more explicit, and it does have O.T.T. acting and imagery we have all come to expect from Russell, (midget Rabbi's and the titular dance done to Grieg's In the Hall of the Mountain King), an underrated film.
This review of Salome's Last Dance (1988) was written by Donald Mckinney on 10 Jul 2008.
Salome's Last Dance has generally received positive reviews.
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