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Salome

Original title: Salomè
  • 1972
  • 1h 16m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
410
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Salome (1972)
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A psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after she fails to seduce the prophet John (The B... Read allA psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after she fails to seduce the prophet John (The Baptist) she dances for the King in order to ask for his execution. The story is told in a ... Read allA psychedelic re-telling of the biblical story. Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and after she fails to seduce the prophet John (The Baptist) she dances for the King in order to ask for his execution. The story is told in a bizarre way of fast cuts, repetitive dialogue and extreme satire.

  • Director
    • Carmelo Bene
  • Writers
    • Carmelo Bene
    • Oscar Wilde
  • Stars
    • Carmelo Bene
    • Lydia Mancinelli
    • Alfiero Vincenti
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    410
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    • Director
      • Carmelo Bene
    • Writers
      • Carmelo Bene
      • Oscar Wilde
    • Stars
      • Carmelo Bene
      • Lydia Mancinelli
      • Alfiero Vincenti
    • 3User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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    Carmelo Bene
    Carmelo Bene
    • Erode Antipa…
    Lydia Mancinelli
    • Erodiade
    Alfiero Vincenti
    • Erodiade
    Donyale Luna
    Donyale Luna
    • Salomè
    Veruschka von Lehndorff
    Veruschka von Lehndorff
    • Myrrhina
    • (as Veruschka)
    Piero Vida
    Piero Vida
    • Narraboth
    Franco Leo
    • Cristo-Vampiro
    Giovanni Davoli
    • Iokanaan
    Luciana Cante
    Marco Carelli
    Dakar
    Dakar
    Juan Fernández
    Juan Fernández
    Ornella Ferrari
    Tom Galleés
    Roberto Gnozzi
    Daria Nicolodi
    Daria Nicolodi
    Salvatore Baccaro
    Salvatore Baccaro
      • Director
        • Carmelo Bene
      • Writers
        • Carmelo Bene
        • Oscar Wilde(uncredited)
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      • Trivia
        Final film of actress/model Donyale Luna.
      • Connections
        Edited into Carmelo Bene - La voce che si spense (2003)
      • Soundtracks
        Abat-jour
        Composed by Robert Stolz, Bixio Cherubini

        Lyrics by Ennio Neri

        Sung by Henry Wright

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      5/10
      A gaudy yet trying curio
      Italian avant-garde stage director Carmelo Bene's version of (I guess) the Oscar Wilde play--the text isn't exactly the point here--is one of those movies that would look absolutely amazing if projected without sound in a club, where people in vintage minidresses or body-paint could go-go dance in front of it. If you actually have to listen and pay attention to it, however, it quickly reveals itself as a time capsule of the most pretentious and irritating sort, showy and empty. There are day-glo colors, black-light effects, a general sense of theatrical drag camp (it's kind of like if someone gave Jack Smith a budget and professional crew/equipment), much nudity, editing that runs a short gamut from ADD to "strobe," actors who are variably over-the-top or amateurishly wooden, incongruous soundtrack elements, and so forth.

      Mostly there's a whole lot of Carmelo Bene, hamming mercilessly as Herod. The woman who plays Salome was apparently a famous African-American fashion model, and she is used for nothing here but her striking features--she can't act, speaks in stilted phonetic fashion (if that's even her voice), and apparently couldn't dance, because when we're supposed to see the Dance of the Seven Veils, we get shots of a scarf floating in the breeze, and Jesus hammering himself onto the cross. (Why Jesus is here, I dunno. But then, there's also a vampire, and a whole lot of red spanked rear cheeks early on.) John the Baptist is played by a squalling character actor I thought I recognized from B-grade Italian comedies. Veruschka gets special billing, but I'm not sure who she played. (Also Dennis Christopher of "Breaking Away" is apparently in here somewhere, but good luck finding him.)

      It's a frenetic, shapeless psychedelic mess that really seems to have no interest in Oscar Wilde, Salome, religion, or anything but a pretty silly level of costumed camp spectacle. Would this have been more effective onstage? Well, at least then one would have been able to appreciate the groovy design aspects without the constant, irksome cutaways.

      Bene had a long career, so his work must have evolved and retained some degree of critical appreciation, but from the evidence here he seems terribly trendy in a way that's a theoretically fun but also exhausting and trivial throwback to the most modish 60s excessrd in capital-A Art. Watching it certainly cured me of any desire to see another movie by Carmelo Bene. Even Ken Russell's "Salome" is better--and that's one of Russell's worst films, with great similarities in campy theatricality and juvenile shock value to this enterprise.
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      • Release date
        • October 20, 1972 (Italy)
      • Country of origin
        • Italy
      • Language
        • Italian
      • Also known as
        • Salomé
      • Filming locations
        • Cinecittà Studios, Cinecittà, Rome, Lazio, Italy
      • Production companies
        • Italnoleggio Cinematografico
        • Ministero del Turismo e dello Spettacolo
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 16 minutes
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.66 : 1

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