Mr. Fry as Oscar Wilde is magnificent, marvelous, realistic and believable from start to finish. The cast from his mother, with too infrequent appearances by Vanessa Redgrave, his beautiful wife, Constance (Jennifer Ehle) and his boys, all evoked the Wilde I imagined.
Alfred Douglas (Jude Law) was just a little too pretty perhaps, and Robbie Ross (Michael Sheen) glowed in his warm friendship until the end, and certainly from the beginning.
We've had other terrific films about English laws about homosexually and their rigidity, but this story is not imagined but the real life of an imaginative, spirited, true to himself man.
I couldn't help weeping for Oscar as I watched Fry go from the bon vivant to the prisoner.
I have only one objection to the film and it is the ending. Lord Alfred Douglas was a selfish man, with few scruples, and let Oscar Wilde down badly and unconscionably. This is not well conceived at the film's conclusion by expressing a joyous reunion rather the truth of Douglas' shameful behavior.
Alfred Douglas (Jude Law) was just a little too pretty perhaps, and Robbie Ross (Michael Sheen) glowed in his warm friendship until the end, and certainly from the beginning.
We've had other terrific films about English laws about homosexually and their rigidity, but this story is not imagined but the real life of an imaginative, spirited, true to himself man.
I couldn't help weeping for Oscar as I watched Fry go from the bon vivant to the prisoner.
I have only one objection to the film and it is the ending. Lord Alfred Douglas was a selfish man, with few scruples, and let Oscar Wilde down badly and unconscionably. This is not well conceived at the film's conclusion by expressing a joyous reunion rather the truth of Douglas' shameful behavior.