Wilde

Wilde

1997

The life of playwright and poet Oscar Wilde is traced from his celebrated social triumphs in London society through his passionate affair with Lord Alfred Douglas and the disastrous libel trial that led to his imprisonment and ruin. Stephen Fry gives a rich and sympathetic performance in this handsomely mounted biographical drama.

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Director

  • Brian Gilbert

Cast

  • Stephen Fry
  • Jude Law

Filming Locations

  • Borough Market
  • Cadogan Hotel

    The Cadogan Hotel on Sloane Street was used for the scene depicting Oscar Wilde's arrest for gross indecency; in the film the ornate red-brick exterior is represented by 2 South Audley Street in Mayfair.

  • Lincoln's Inn Fields

    Stone Buildings in Lincoln's Inn was used for the scene in which Oscar is taken to meet his future wife Constance Lloyd at the Lloyd family home.

  • Lulworth Beach

    The beach below Durdle Door near Lulworth was used for the scene in which Constance (Jennifer Ehle) hints at the marital difficulties caused by Wilde's relationship with Bosie to Lady Mount-Temple (Judy Parfitt).

  • Luton Hoo

    Luton Hoo was used as the grand hotel where Wilde and Bosie (Jude Law) reconcile after their blazing row, the opulent Edwardian interiors standing in for a continental luxury hotel.

  • Magdalen College

    Magdalen College, Wilde's own Oxford alma mater, was used for the scene in which Bosie (Jude Law) confides his fear of blackmail to Wilde alongside the River Cherwell in the college grounds.

  • Middle Temple

    Middle Temple in the Inns of Court provided the law court exteriors used for scenes depicting Wilde's libel action against the Marquess of Queensberry and the subsequent criminal trial.

  • Somerset House

    The central courtyard of Somerset House stood in as the exterior of Wilde's fashionable West End apartment, its grand neoclassical facade providing the period London streetscape.

  • Studland Beach

    Studland Bay in Dorset was used for beach scenes set during Wilde's seaside sojourns with his family and with Bosie.

  • Swanage Pier

    The Victorian Swanage Pier was used for the scene in which Wilde takes his children fishing while suffering from a cold, a domestic interlude contrasting with his turbulent personal life.