Importance of Being Earnest, The

Aroview: Second bite of the Oscar Wilde cherry by the director of AN IDEAL HUSBAND transcribes Wilde’s most delectable drawing-room farce with perfect pitch by a hand-picked Trans-Atlantic cast.

Though slightly padded with fantasy sequences, flashbacks and chase scenes, the film-makers take pains to preserve the text, filled with melt-in-the-mouth epigrams, which winkingly focuses on a pair of bachelor dandies (Rupert Everett and Colin Firth) juggling double identities...

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