Salome's Last Dance

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Steven B @sbrown8775 01/13/2025 This has always been one of my favorite Ken Russell films. My top three are, The Devils, Women in Love, and, strangely enough, Maher. This one is four or five. He's always interesting though! Oh , sorry, I forgot about Lisztomania. He's almost always interesting, though! See more Harrison M 12/11/2023 Walked into a half price books and picked up this VHS for $15 on a whim. Blew my f mind. Cheers Ken Russell Cheers Imogen! brilliant performance. Absolute gem.💎 See more 10/19/2019 To the tune of Tom Petty: "Last dance with Salomé / A bad time to be a ga-a-ay" Brilliantly acted and cleverly staged, Russell educes the layers of excess, decadence, and wild(e) camp already contained within the classic and important source material, as Strauss had done before him, to singular effect. See more 01/05/2018 God I wish we could go back in time and have Ken Russell direct every play ever. Or at least revive this as an immersive theater play. As a Godless heathen I gotta admit I went into this a little blind as far as how I was 'meant' to feel about this story of Salome. I presume from Oscar Wilde's tears and the small bit of Biblical knowledge I possess that Salome is, for all intents and purposes, the 'bad' guy here. But I couldn't help but think - and I think Ken Russell is definitely here with me - that she comes across as more of the celebrated victor. I mean, starting off this play with three topless women dressed in Roman armor sodomizing a man in a cage with a large prosthetic penis... like, who could say that was 'evil'!?! For serious though, more than anything the movie struck me as a story of how men are undone by beauty. Herod is undone by Salome and her mother. The solider is undone by Salome. Oscar is undone by Bosie, then the golden boy (and then Bosie again). And John the Baptist is spiritually undone by his love of God - captured and tortured - and then physically undone by Salome. And it's that exact male failure and embarrassment with themselves that, in the play, leads to Salome's unnecessary punishment. Beautiful BEAUTIFUL set, great plot set up, fun play, insane costumes, amazing dance. And again a word about Russell's use of nudity... like boy, in any other movie I'd be side-eyeing so hard at the half naked women running around but in a Ken Russell flick he makes nudity not only equal opportunity (there's full frontal male nudity!) but also a power move. More natural, more classic, more power. JEAH boiiiiiiii!!!!!!!! See more 01/06/2014 Another gorgeous and wonderfully campy entry from that cinematic god named Ken Russell. See more 05/17/2013 For me, one of the best movies about Oscar Wilde's masterpiece. Some details are brilliant. And the original lines are respected. See more Read all reviews

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