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THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST |
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Year: 2002
Director: Oliver Parker
Writers: Oliver Parker, Oscar Wilde
Producers: Barnaby Thompson and David Brown (co-producer)
Cast
Rupert Everett.............Algy
Colin Firth...................Jack
Frances O'Connor............Gwendolen
Reese Witherspoon............Cecily
Judi Dench..........Lady Bracknell
Tom Wilkinson..........Dr Chasuble
Anna Massey..............Miss Prism
Edward Fox.................Lane
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This revisionist screen version of Oscar Wilde's classic comedy of manners, written and directed by Oliver Parker, includes fantasy scenes, flashbacks, a hot-air balloon and a saucy tattoo, and: “Many hard-core Wilde people will hate it,” says actress Frances O’Connor, who plays Gwendolen.
Parker, however, says he's fed up with Wilde being "trotted out to reinforce certain notions", and that his approach is "a celebration of wit, an element of the outrageous without being heavy-handed. I think Wilde would approve," he adds.
Bridget Jones’s Diary star Colin Firth, who plays Jack in the film, agrees: "The play has been done endlessly, and for someone to take it and be impertinent with it is not only an interesting experiment but entirely consistent with the spirit of the original. Oscar Wilde was in the business of disturbing complacencies and creating upsets and upheavals.”
The Importance Of being Earnest is currently on general release in both the UK and US.
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