This campy Ken Russell vehicle is essentially a filmed play, a single-location slice of theatre which restages Oscar Wilde's play SALOME in a then-contemporary setting with the performers playing members of a brothel staging a visiting Wilde's play for his own benefit. It's a typically bizarre piece of work and not really to my taste at all, mixing the highbrow Bible story with tons of nudity, sexualisation and random lowbrow humour. I was astonished to see Glenda Jackson appearing. Russell's film is admittedly flamboyant but despite the hard work of the actors, I did wonder just what I was watching.
Review of Salome's Last Dance
