"More personal and obsessive than his 1996 Shakespeare documentary Looking for Richard, with which it has much in common, Al Pacino's long-in-the-making Wilde Salome is both an intriguing exploration of Oscar Wilde's play about the destructive use of sexuality and an intimate self-portrait of the actor/director as he over-extends himself into performing Salome on stage and shooting a film — this film — at the same time." Deborah Young in the Hollywood Reporter: "Researching Salome, which he performed twice on stage, becomes an 'obsession' as he struggles to find the right mixture of the play, Wilde, himself making the play and making a movie about all of the above. Editors Roberto Silvi and David Leonard do a Herculean job compiling very disparate material into an engrossing, smooth-flowing film."
It's "an enjoyable mess," finds Movieline's Stephanie Zacharek, "particularly for anyone who gets a thrill out of documentaries about process…. [D]uring the course of it,...
It's "an enjoyable mess," finds Movieline's Stephanie Zacharek, "particularly for anyone who gets a thrill out of documentaries about process…. [D]uring the course of it,...
- 9/4/2011
- MUBI
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