Compilation/Packaged Set: Al Pacino Presents: Wilde Salome / Salome
Purchase Date 5/29/2020
Purchase Price $9.99
Store Amazon
Condition Streaming

Presented as a double feature, actor/director Al Pacino shares his most personal project ever; the unconventional documentary Wilde Salome, unprecedented behind the scenes look at Pacino's journey followed by the stage adaptation of Salome. Follow Pacino as he explores the complexities of Oscar Wilde's acclaimed play Salome, Wilde himself and the birth of a rising star, Jessica Chastain.
Salomé
 (2013)
Drama, Queer Themes/Interest
In Collection
#2173
0*
Seen It:  Yes
(5/31/2020 Amazon $)
IMDB   6.5
78 mins USA / English
Amazon $ 
Kevin Anderson John the Baptist
Jessica Chastain Salome
Ralph Guzzo Nazarene
Roxanne Hart Herodias
Al Pacino King Herod
Phillip Rhys The Young Syrian
Steve Roman Cappadocian
Joe Roseto The Young Syrian
Jack Stehlin Nazarene
Director
Al Pacino
Producer Michael Feifer
Robert Fox
Writer/Composer Oscar Wilde
Cinematography Benoît Delhomme

One of Al Pacino's directory experiments, Salomé was filmed over 5 days in 2011, but has yet to be widely released. It is a part of a double feature on the Oscar Wilde short play "Salomé", together with the Venice-shown documentary "Wilde Salomé", that shows the making of this film. The synops shown on IMDb for the 1923 take on the play goes as following: "Salome, the daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/uncle Herod, governor of Judea, with a salacious dance. In return, he promises her the head of the prophet John the Baptist."
Edition Details
Distributor Amazon Digital Services LLC.
No. of Discs/Tapes 1
Personal Details
Location Amazon: My Video Library
Owner Deitz
Links Wikipedia: The Opera [Richard Strauss]
IMDB
TheMovieDb.org
Amazon: My Video Library

Notes
I'm not yet sure what I think of this production of ,Salome. Especially confused about Pacino as Herod. He seemed either oddly insane or drunk, Perhaps he was intended to be so. Even stranger, although staged in 2011, he reminded me of today's (2020) Trump
Another strange thing. Richard claims we saw the opera Salome at the Met in 1989. He pulled out a saved program to prove it. I have absolutely no recollection of it. How could I not remember the "dance of the veils" and John the Baptist's beheading!