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FILM DETAILS

Certificate 15

Cast Ben Barnes Colin Firth Rebecca Hall Rachel Hurd-Wood Emilia Fox Ben Chaplin Caroline Goodall

Directors Oliver Parker

Screenwriters Toby Finlay

Running Time 112 minutes

Dorian Gray (15)

Plot
In Victorian England, the young Dorian Gray (Barnes) is enamoured with the hedonism of Lord Wotton (Firth). After seeing a portrait that captures his beauty, Gray wishes the portrait would age while he stays forever young, but it’s the painting, not his body, that carries the scars...

Verdict
An ambitious if decidedly uneven interpretation of the last great Gothic horror novel.


Reviewer: Will Lawrence

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