(until 29 August)
Christian Merlhiot, The Trials of Oscar Wilde , 2010, Movie, 48mn, ver ang st.
Oscar Wilde was close to the impressionists, particularly the painter James Whistler. He experienced reconciliations between poetry and painting in the form of "visual poems" he called Impressions, and has always defended the subjectivity in art. In 1897, after a trial that turns against him, he was convicted and sentenced for homosexuality Two years of hard labor. On his release he changed his identity, leaving England to Dieppe and moved to Berneval and Paris. For his film, Christian was selected Merlhiot lengthy extracts from the trial to account for this last coup de theater "in the life of the author. It is however not a pageant, in fact, the film features a young translator working for the Arabic version of the trial and it's the same actor, Nasri Sayegh, who plays only the different roles.
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