arthur
a study of duty
The DVD has been released at last!
London, capital of the flourishing British Empire, 1880’s. Its dark, gruesome alleys, and their terrifying and filthy inhabitants.
In the midst of such dismal a crowd, our handsome hero, Arthur, fights against himself and his acute and paradoxal sens of duty.
Such is the setting of our second film, after the short story of one of our favorite authors, Oscar Wilde, whose ghost follows our steps ever since we created Compagnie Oghma.
Two years after Listless angels and their parcimonious dialogs, here we are, back to making movies, in a rather insane project: a lavish silent film, half-way between DeMille and Dreyer, Murnau and Browning; between Pabst’s Nero and Stroheim’s Universal – a silent film, entirely shot in English, with titles alike.
A tale between London and Venice, with love, horror, sex, madness, purple velvet, champagne flowing, roses, candles, gin, rats, drugs, innocent beauty, perverse filth, macabre dances, the whole shot in marked shades of black and white, with worrying lighting, gruesome and refined sets.
A couple well-known faces, like our personal Gloria Swanson, Christine Narovitch, who was our Phèdre in 2008, but newcomers as well: Thomas Lajudie, our hero, our dreamed Lord Arthur, Giulia Dussollier, heart-breaking in her cristal-like purity.
And should you be around, run to NewFilmmakers in NYC, to see it screened there on Wednesday July 25th!
Oghma presents: a Oghma/TDMFilmProduktion co-production, Lord Arthur Savile’s crime, a study of duty, written and directed by Charles Di Meglio, after the short story by Oscar Wilde. Starring Thomas Lajudie (Arthur), Christine Narovitch (Lady Gladys), Giulia Dussollier (Sybil), Karl von Besten (Septimus R. Podgers), Arthur Perier (Molyneux). First assistant to the director: Zelda Bourquin, editing: Quentin Dany, music performed by the Ebo.