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Salome’s Last Dance
UNITED KINGDOM · 1988

Salome’s Last Dance

Ken Russell
censorship and banned art homosexuality and forbidden desire Oscar Wilde performance and theater decadence and transgression
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Synopsis

London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establ

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