Dorian Gray (15)

Colin Firth steals the show in this ambitious version of Oscar Wilde's great Gothic horror novel

Director: Oliver Parker
Starring: Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall
USA, 2009, 1 hour 52 minutes

Fri 26 February 7.30pm Ballingham & Bolstone Village Hall
Sat 27 February 7.30pm Dorstone Village Hall
Thur 11 March 7.30pm Leominster Lion Ballroom

Dorian Gray, a beautiful but naÏve young man, arrives in Victorian London and comes under the influence of the charismatic corrupter Henry Wotton (Colin Firth) who introduces him to the seedier side of society. The latest version of Oscar Wilde's classic morality tale of the man who sells his soul for the pleasures of eternal youth is darker than previous adaptations. But its contemporary themes - the adulation of celebrity, obsession with youth and beauty, the pursuit of individual gratification above everything - make it bang-up-to-date.