Al Pacino goes past hammy straight to horrendous as an eccentrically mannered, depraved Herod in this altogether odd film of a 2006 L.A. staging of Oscar Wilde’s decadent play about the Biblical daughter of Herodias, whose rebuffed lust for captive John the Baptist prompts her fabled version of a Judean lapdance in exchange for the prophet’s head. Not least of the weirdness is Pacino’s affected but indeterminate accent amid an otherwise resolutely American ensemble. Jessica Chastain, though, in a performance that brought a stampede of filmmakers to her door, is sensational, mesmerising, mad, bad and intoxicatingly erotic.
Salomé Review
A filmed recording of Al Pacinos 2006 Los Angeles production of Oscar Wildes tale
Release Date:
21 Sep 2014
Running Time:
81 minutes
Certificate:
15
Original Title:
Salomé
Five stars for Chastain. For the film, not so much.
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