Salome, Salome, Salome

Cinema Mentiré presents SALOME, SALOME, SALOME: a season bringing together three radically different queer interpretations of the biblical princess.

The season opens at The Garden Cinema with the UK premiere of the unashamed sci-fi melodrama rom-com SALOME (2024) by André Antônio, a lush, camp creation that relocates the legend to a working-class Brazilian neighbourhood in the 21st century. It continues at the Rio Cinema with SALOME'S LAST DANCE (1988) by British enfant terrible Ken Russell, a delicious re-enactment of Wilde's forbidden drama. The season concludes at The Garden Cinema with the dreamlike SALOME (1976) by Mexican artist Teo Hernández, a sensorial work of textures, desire, and veils.