Dorian Gray

Dorian Gray is a beautiful but naïve young man when he arrives in Victorian London. He becomes the subject in a painting by artist Basil Hallward, who becomes infactuated with him and his beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets the charismatic Lord Henry Wotton, who introduces him to the hedonistic pleasures of the city. After Lord Henry suggests that the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfilment of the senses, Dorian, realising his looks will one day fade, wishes that Basil's portrait of him decay and age in his stead. Dorian's desire is granted, and he is subsequently plunged into a series of debauched and wicked deeds, having sold his soul.

This is the second film that Rachel Hurd-Wood has done that involves an eternally youthful male lead. The first was 2003's Peter Pan.

'I much prefer Albert Lewin's undervalued, black-and-white 1945 MGM version, with Hurd Hatfield's hypnotic, mask-like Dorian, and the portrait rendered in colour by the American hyper realist, Ivan Le Lorraine Albright.'

'We could complain that Barnes is a somewhat vanilla hellraiser, and more boyishly handsome than impossibly beautiful. He's too much of an ingénu at the start. But, let's face it, it could have been worse. It could have been Orlando Bloom.'

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 - 07/09/2009

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