What's happening?

Video Sources 1918 Views Report Error

  • Watch Full
  • Watch Full
The Importance of Being Oscar

The Importance of Being Oscar

A star-studded account of Oscar Wilde’s glittering and controversial career before his trial for homosexual crimes and tragic fall from grace.Apr. 20, 2019UK84 Min.
Your rating: 0
6.7 3 votes

Synopsis

A star-studded BBC film of Oscar Wilde’s glittering and controversial career before his trial for homosexual crimes and tragic fall from grace. Highlights from Oscar’s brilliant comedies such as The Importance of Being Earnest and stories such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost are adapted and performed by a cast including Freddie Fox, Claire Skinner, Anna Chancellor and James Fleet. Wilde enthusiasts and experts, including Stephen Fry, Wilde’s grandson Merlin Holland and his latest biographers, provide revelatory accounts of how his own life informed his work. His Irish roots, his early career, his marriage and the importance of women as well as men in his life all combine in a complex and compelling characterisation and celebration that adds flesh to the bones of a man who is too often caricatured.

The Importance of Being Oscar
Original title The Importance of Being Oscar

Director

Cast

Similar titles

The Freedom to Marry
RCHS JAPAN
The End of Cruising
In Their Room: San Francisco
No Ordinary Man
Question One
Before Stonewall
Anima Ardens
China’s Gay Shock Therapy
The Butch Factor
In Their Room: London
Survival of the Fabulous