Screening of SALOME’S LAST DANCE + Intro-performance by Drag King Loose Willis
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Cinema Mentiré presents Salome, Salome, Salome bringing together three radically different queer incarnations of the biblical princess across Brazil, Mexico and the UK, with intros by TGirlsOnFilm, Loose Willis and Lola Lemke.
The second day of the season features Salome’s Last Dance by British enfant terrible Ken Russell, a delirious and delicious re-enactment of Oscar Wilde’s forbidden play:
SALOME’S LAST DANCE
Dir. Ken Russell, 1988, UK / USA, 89min.
📆 Saturday, 4th July, at 9.20pm
🎤 Intro-performance by Loose Willis, an international award-winning drag king who serves rock’n’roll scuzz, high-camp glamour and comedy excellence
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London, 5th November 1892, Bonfire Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxurious 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 establishment will participate.
Check it out also the screenings that open and close the season at The Garden Cinema: on 3 July, the UK premiere of the unashamed sci-fi melodrama rom-com Salome by André Antônio, part of Surto & Deslumbramento, the Brazilian leading queer film collective of the last decade + the dreamlike Salome of textures, sensations and veils by experimental Mexican artist Teo Hernández on 5 July.