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Three years on and Al Pacino’s recent pet projects\u2014Salom\u00e9<\/em> and Wilde Salom\u00e9<\/em>\u2014have yet to be given a general release. Salom\u00e9<\/em> is the one I’m most eager to see, a filmed performance of the Oscar Wilde play with Jessica Chastain in the title role. There is at least a trailer<\/a> now, which gives an intriguing taste of the production. Like Steven Berkoff<\/a>, Pacino has opted for modern dress while making some of the details\u2014the moon, Jokanaan’s well\u2014more material. If Wilde’s Symbolist melodrama seems rather effete for a man known for playing gangsters it should be noted that the play features a suicide and two executions, as well as a strong theme of paternal incest and even necrophilia. Herod, of course, is notorious for being a child-murdering king.<\/p>\n Pacino and Jessica Chastain are in London on Sunday at BFI Southbank<\/a> talking with Stephen Fry about Salom\u00e9<\/em> and the feature-length production documentary, Wilde Salom\u00e9<\/em><\/a>. Both films will also receive screenings. Here’s hoping the rest of us won’t have much longer to wait before we can see them.<\/p>\n Elsewhere on { feuilleton } Three years on and Al Pacino’s recent pet projects\u2014Salom\u00e9 and Wilde Salom\u00e9\u2014have yet to be given a general release. Salom\u00e9 is the one I’m most eager to see, a filmed performance of the Oscar Wilde play with Jessica Chastain in the title role. There is at least a trailer now, which gives an intriguing taste … Continue reading “Salom\u00e9 and Wilde Salom\u00e9”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,46],"tags":[2351,3517,6458,116,123,373,1309],"class_list":["post-15753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-theatre","tag-al-pacino","tag-bfi","tag-jessica-chastain","tag-oscar-wilde","tag-salome","tag-stephen-fry","tag-steven-berkoff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-465","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"salome2.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/salome2.jpg\")
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