Directed By:Albert Lewin
Written By:Albert Lewin, Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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65
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6.8
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Metascore
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It's the film for which Albright painted a series of progressively decaying portraits of Dorian, climaxing in a ghastly vision of venereal rot and putrescence. [27 Feb 1997, p.11B]
80
More than 45 years after it was released, the movie made of Oscar Wilde's tale of the price of eternal youth is still well worth seeing. [05 Sep 1991, p.11]
80
With elegant fin de siècle sets superbly shot by Harry Stradling, and the ironic Wildean wit understated rather than overplayed, it's that rare thing: a Hollywoodian literary adaptation that both stays faithful and does justice to its source.
60
The Oscar Wilde story has its compelling gimmick and its cheap thrills, and despite the failings of Albert Lewin as writer and director, he has an appetite for decadence and plushy decor.
50
In the adaptation by Albert Lewin, much of the offscreen narration, explaining among other things what is going on in Gray’s mind may be too much for most to grasp.
50
Picture of Dorian Gray isn’t awful, though it’s certainly an instance in which an outright debacle would have made a much more interesting film.
30
The whole thing... makes little or no intelligible sense.
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May 20, 2025
6
Es una película bastante pobre. Leí el libro hace relativamente poco, hasta aproximadamente el capítulo tres, por lo que tenía una idea de los personajes. Por ello, el primer error es el casting, y es un problema porque se habla justamente de la imagen, y la imagen del actor no es lo suficientemente **** segundo error, y el más problemático, es acerca de cómo se cuenta la historia: utilizan el recurso del narrador, cosa que a priori podría estar bien. El problema es que es el que más habla, y cuando habla explica y guía lo que pasa, lo que significa que no te da la libertad de tener una idea propia de los acontecimientos. Abusan del recurso, lo que hace que se vuelva como una especie de documental mal **** que podría rescatar es con respecto a la pintura: mostrar cómo se convierte y hacerlo a color en algunas escenas es algo bastante bueno, pero no lo suficiente como para decir que es una buena película.
Production Company:
- Loew's
Release Date:Mar 3, 1945
Duration:1 h 50 m
Rating:TV-PG
Tagline:His life was a muddy morass into which he dragged all who knew him! Such was Dorian Gray, the man who wanted eternal youth, and bartered his soul to get it!
Awards
Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Hugo Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
