Oscar Wilde's "De Profundis" by Rupert Everett 30 Nov 2011
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
- Rupert Everett reads from "De Profundis" at the ceremony for Oscar Wilde's renovated tomb statue - a (n improvised) film by Seamas McSwiney - on Lumix TZ7 pocket camera using inbuilt mike.
Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris Nov 30th 2011.
De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is an epistle written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas. During its first half Wilde recounts their previous relationship and extravagant lifestyle which eventually led to Wilde's conviction and imprisonment for gross indecency. He indicts both Lord Alfred's vanity and his own weakness in acceding to those wishes. In the second half, Wilde charts his spiritual development in prison and identification with Jesus Christ, whom he characterises as a romantic, individualist artist.
Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897, close to the end of his imprisonment. Contact had lapsed between Douglas and Wilde and the latter had suffered from his physical labour and emotional isolation; a new warden thought that writing might be more cathartic than prison labour. Wilde's work was closely supervised and he was not allowed to send the letter, but took it with him upon release, whereupon he entrusted the manuscript to Robert Ross, with instructions to have two copies made: one to be sent to the author himself and the other to Douglas. Ross published the letter in 1905, five years after Wilde's death, giving it the title "De Profundis" from Psalm 130. It was an incomplete version, excised of its autobiographical elements; various editions gave more text until 1962 when the complete and correct version appeared in a volume of Wilde's letters.
(from wikipedia; more info on: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Profundis_%28letter%29 and complete text at: fullbooks.com/De-Profundis.html )
A film by Séamas McSwiney.
Shot with a Lumix TZ7 pocket camera using inbuilt microphone.
So beautiful.
We adore you Oscar Wilde. This is perfect. Thank you for sharing this. ❤️
Thank you for the upload. I was able to visit his grave and was just amazed by how many people were there on a Sunday afternoon on Bastille Day no less. It just goes to show how many people were touched by his writing and wanted to pay their respects to him. I hope he can see how loved he is all these years later and that the shame he felt was only due to the times he lived in.
Beautiful. I'm off to Paris tomorrow for the first time, and as soon as I've dropped my bags at my hotel i am going to visit his grave.
I'm jelous!
Belated thanks for this historic video. It is heartening to live in a time when we, Oscar's brothers, are witness to his exoneration and his readmittance to the Greats.
Thank you ❤
Wonderful reading - best ever - I’ve seen Oscars grave and was so pleased to do so - it was so lovely just to be there 👍
Many thanks for uploading this. Wonderful video & reading. I'm sure Wilde would've loved it.
Maybe the music could have been down a notch ...but it serves to camouflage some pretty rough hard-on-the-ear audio because of the PA system and because it was shot entirely by chance on a pocket camera with a very basic inbuilt mike. Try and look at it as a memento and for a sweeter sound (but w/less excitement and no bones? ;-) see this here on UA-cam "Rupert Everett reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol" ua-cam.com/video/03XpNoMVeak/v-deo.html
geez Rupert's looking hot with that beard - Wilde would agree.
But thanks for the film!
❤👏
Why do they put the background music on? I found it totally unnecessary. it detracts from the power of the spoken word . Wilde's words do not need musical " enhancement", they stand on their own.
Maybe the music could have been down a notch ...but it serves to camouflage some pretty rough hard-on-the-ear audio because of the PA system and because it was shot entirely by chance on a pocket camera with a very basic inbuilt mike. Try and look at it as a memento and for a sweeter sound (but w/less excitement and no bones? ;-) Anyway, see this here on UA-cam "Rupert Everett reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol" ua-cam.com/video/03XpNoMVeak/v-deo.html
I agree with in all points with Seamus. Though great words may stand on their own, well-composed music (here by Australian, Larry Sitsky) can provide supple and touching background support. After all, Wilde's own 'Salome' became Strauss's great opera and I very much doubt if he would've minded. On the contrary. Also, strict, exclusive specialisations are not the only way to distill art, whether high or low. So I believe your Protestant prohibitionism is simply parochial, as it always was, esthetically and therefore spiritually. Go well.
Why the musical backdrop? You can't hear the music of the words...
Maybe the music could have been down a notch ...but it serves to camouflage some pretty rough hard-on-the-ear audio because of the PA system and because it was shot entirely by chance on a pocket camera with a very basic inbuilt mike. Try and look at it as a memento and for a sweeter sound (but w/less excitement and no bones? ;-) Anyway, see this here on UA-cam "Rupert Everett reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol" ua-cam.com/video/03XpNoMVeak/v-deo.html
Yes ''Abel Korzeniowski - Stillness of The Mind'' :)
Avrei preferito di molto poter assaporare in un silenzio interiore la lettura di un libro che mi è stato e sarà sempre uno specchio in cui ritrovare parti di me
Vuoi dire senza la musica? Maybe the music could have been down a notch ...but it serves to camouflage some pretty rough hard-on-the-ear audio because of the PA system and because it was shot entirely by chance on a pocket camera with a very basic inbuilt mike. Try and look at it as a memento and for a sweeter sound (but w/less excitement and no bones? ;-) Anyway, see this here on UA-cam "Rupert Everett reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol" ua-cam.com/video/03XpNoMVeak/v-deo.html
The music is intrusive.
Is the music from A Single Man?
orb at 3.52?
One self obsessed, delusional, narcissist quoting another.
One self-obsessed, delusional narcissist "commenting" .....