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Article: De Profundis.
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- Article date:
- July 1, 1998
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by Lawrence Brose distributed by Lawrence Brose, 1997 P.O. Box 819, Buffalo, NY 14205
De Profundis, independent filmmaker Lawrence Brose's most ambitious film to date, is 65 non-narrative minutes of dizzying sensory excess. This cinematic treatment of Oscar Wilde's prison letter is almost exclusively interpreted as a bravura defiance of gay assimilation into "normal" society. But what is most uncompromising about the film - and for me what leaves the most lasting impression - is Brose's intensive use of cinema as physical sensation and spectacle. Every formal element is multi-layered; there is always more to see, to hear and to comprehend than seems possible at a ...