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Salome's Last Dance (1988)

Salome's Last Dance poster
Directed by
Ken Russell
Genre
comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 34 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Oscar Wilde's play Salome is performed in a brothel. The film follows both the onstage drama and the offstage interactions of the performers and the audience.

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What happens

Salome's Last Dance is a 1988 British film written and directed by Ken Russell. Although most of the action is a verbatim performance of Oscar Wilde's 1891 play Salome, which is itself based on a story from the New Testament, there is also a framing narrative that was written by Russell. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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