After a few members of a test audience opined online, the next film incarnation of The Picture of Dorian Gray looked grim, and not because it's a horror flick.
gives us a new mantra: "Ben's fans will all be carrying this picture." The review/comment on the upcoming release has a decidedly positive flavor. Remarks that Ben Barnes will have to find cover from female fans and can be equated with Rob Pattinson's newfound fame, are stricking.
However, how good the movie is, will be the decision maker in many fans' eyes: is it good? Well, he goes on to say:
"Even so, if my sense of Oliver Parker's Ealing Studios production, based on Oscar Wilde's classic novel, is correct, then the shrewdly-shot movie will garner Barnes more fame than The Chronicles Of Narnia picture, in which he played Prince Caspian.
The actor plays the handsome title character who appears charming on the surface, but underneath his life is a monstrous corruption.
He has made a devilish pact to retain his youth and beauty while he locks away a portrait of himself that, over time, reveals his true, rotten-to-the-core character.
Colin Firth superbly underplays the aristocrat who leads Dorian into temptation, and newcomer Rachel Hurd-Wood, a stunning screen beauty, captures the delicacy of the ingenue Dorian destroys.
Rebecca Hall, as always, is sublime as the woman who loves him."
My hope is that Ealing Studios allows TIFF (Toronto Int'l Film Festival) audiences to see the film before its September 11th release. When I see this turn of events, my confidence as a fan and genre journalist will be restored.
Without a critical revue, then what should audiences believe? The test audience members or a write up in a British mag?
TIFF will be announcing its event listing in the next several weeks. I hope to see Dorian Gray listed. Fans receive a world premiere and option to see the film a month early.
Source: Daily Mail
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