Pacino describes how he felt increasingly drawn to Wilde as he investigated his life and its influence on the play. theater before an audience, recreated on a sound stage, and with a different cast in the middle of a desert, the least necessary part of the film. Large chunks of the play are performed in three formats: as a reading in an L.A. PHOTOS: The Scene at the Venice Film FestivalĪs in Looking for Richard, it is a treat watching skilled actors build their performances during rehearsal, particularly the luminous young Chastain (this is her first film role), Kevin Anderson as Jokanaan/John the Baptist and Roxanne Hart playing Salome’s smarmy mother Herodias. Editors Roberto Silvi and David Leonard do a Herculean job compiling very disparate material into an engrossing, smooth-flowing film. 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. Fifteen years after his first directing stint exploring Richard III, Pacino is older but as curious and energetic as ever, hammy, moody and likeable by turns.
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