Director Elizabeth Dinkova flips the script on Salome by ensuring that the audience sees more of the male body than the ...
Oscar Wilde's biblical tale of lust and revenge, Salome follows the legend of King Herod (Al Pacino ... of seduction and manipulation--and the Dance of the Seven Veils--to seek her revenge.
By Zachary Woolfe Strauss’s “Salome ... Dance of the Seven Veils here begins as very much a young girl’s awkward shimmying before smartly reversing the standard power dynamics: Herod ...
The film actually begins with the Roman invasion by Pompey in 65 B.C., the appointment of King Herod the ... Baptist's beheading as Salome's price for dancing for Herod.
According to lore, Salome is step-daughter to King Herod Antipas, who asks her to dance at a dinner and is ... Salome's seedy story on film before; its stew of perverse lusts, transactional ...