movie poster for WILDE

Flicks ID

7094

Cert

15

Running time

112 mins

Country

Language

Format

DVD

WILDE (1997)

BRIAN GILBERT

Plot

Stunning biopic of Oscar Wilde, with Stephen Fry giving an exceptional performance as the controversial playwright. Against the austere and seedy backdrop of Victorian London, the rise and fall of the legendary wit is told with sensitivity and gutsiness, with a storming performance from Jude Law as the pouting, petulant Lord Douglas. Fry is dazzling, portraying both vulnerability and flagrant impertinence with equal aplomb, as he marauds kamikaze-like through London's outraged literary society. Superb.