Dorian Gray in the Mirror of the Yellow Press
Director: Ulrike Ottinger Run Time: 150 min. Release Year: 1984 Language: German with English subtitles
Starring: Delphine Seyrig, Irm Hermann, Tabea Blumenschein, Toyo Tanaka, Veruschka von Lehndorff
The wildly unpredictable and uncannily gorgeous films of lesbian auteur Ulrike Ottinger are legendary for their sensational costumes and set design. In DORIAN GRAY, French cinema icon Delphine Seyrig plays the sinister head of a media empire that seeks to create its own celebrity—and then destroy him.