One of us has to go.” These are the famous last words of Oscar Wilde – and like a lot of such quotations, it’s apocryphal. He almost certainly said something like that, but it was weeks before his death in 1900, at which time he was insensible. Rupert Everett knows that, and he places the line in its proper historical context in his sympathetic tribute to the British writer. Rather than try to encompass all of Wilde’s busy 46 years, Everett focuses on the final three, when that wallpaper really started to rankle. But in this telling, Wilde is a tragic, helpless romantic, unable to stop up his ears to the cries of his heart.

Source: National Post October 19, 2018 16:07 UTC