2009 · fantasy · drama · thriller
Dorian Gray
Directed by Oliver Parker1h 52m2009
Seduced into the decadent world of Lord Henry Wotton, handsome young aristocrat Dorian Gray becomes obsessed with maintaining his youthful appearance, and commissions a special portrait that will weather the winds of time while he remains forever young. When Gray's obsession spirals out of control, his desperate attempts to safeguard his secret turn his once-privileged life into a living hell.
Our read: Dorian Gray (2009) reads as a sombre, steady, inventive fantasy · drama · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured fantasy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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