Celebrate LGBT+ History Month by attending this immersive film screening of "Wilde" - the 1997 biopic starring Stephen Fry as Oscar Wilde.
This dramatisation of the fall from grace of author Oscar Wilde was filmed in the courtroom of St Albans Museum + Gallery, where this screening will take place.
Summary:
Author, play write and poet, Oscar Wilde [Stephen Fry] returns from a successful 1882 lecture tour of America to wed Constance Lloyd Wilde [Jennifer Ehle]. However, having accepted that he is in fact attracted to men, Oscar Wilde embarks on a long, passionate and tempestuous affair with Lord Alfred Douglas [Jude Law], known as “Bosie.” Although winning great critical and public success with the works as “The Picture of Dorian Gray,” Oscar Wilde’s homosexuality is at odds with a repressive Victorian society and sets him on the path to a very public, brutal fall from grace.
Featuring Stephen Fry in a role he was born to play and a stellar British supporting cast which includes subtle supporting performances from Vanessa Redgrave, Michael Sheen, Tom Wilkinson and Zoë Wanamaker. ‘WILDE’ celebrates one of English literature’s greatest, most flamboyant and tragic figures.