A new version of the Oscar Wilde classic which was so memorably filmed in 1945 and starred George Sanders.Ben Barnes takes the eponymous sybaritic role who stays young and handsome whilst the picture which he keeps locked away in his attic shows his true self,corrupt and decaying.
I have always thought that this (albeit intriguing) idea is too slight to stretch over a film and would be perhaps better suited to an hour-long TV drama and so it is here - Colin Firth is the best thing about it as the decadent aristocrat who launches the central character on his hedonistic path to a well-deserved comeuppance,reprising the George Sanders role of six decades earlier.
Victorian London is well depicted on film and the producers have taken one or two liberties with the original storyline.4/10
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