Reading Gaol

Short / Drama
UK, 2019, 14 min

Directed by:

Aymeric Nicolet

Screenplay:

Aymeric Nicolet

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Based on Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Reading Gaol focuses on Oscar Wilde's time in prison after being convicted of "gross indecency" for his relationship with his lover, Alfred Douglas. As his body and spirit break under the cruelty of prison life, and the people closest to him grow ever more distant, he only finds refuge in writing. (Camerimage)

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