I've got to admit, I haven't seen this one. It is repulsively difficult to get Jarman's movies in the country of his birth (though perhaps not so surprising - we did try to ban Sebastiane for the unforgivable sin of showing a hard cock) and this isn't one of his better-known works, so it has probably been given up as unprofitable by most Region 2 DVD companies.
But I do feel cheered that it's out there, even though I hadn't heard much about it before. Tilda's comments on Derek nowadays often ruefully note that such an individual vision wouldn't get through the British film industry in a time when every movie still has to conform to the phrase "It's like The Full Monty with FILL IN BLANK HERE", but the man's back catalogue tells a different story. The fact that actors of the calibre of Swinton and Gough were willing to climb on board such an unapologetically 'art-house' and personal vision makes me feel a lot better about working on my own career. Vast swathes of my plans now seem at least thirty-six per cent less impossible.
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But I do feel cheered that it's out there, even though I hadn't heard much about it before. Tilda's comments on Derek nowadays often ruefully note that such an individual vision wouldn't get through the British film industry in a time when every movie still has to conform to the phrase "It's like The Full Monty with FILL IN BLANK HERE", but the man's back catalogue tells a different story. The fact that actors of the calibre of Swinton and Gough were willing to climb on board such an unapologetically 'art-house' and personal vision makes me feel a lot better about working on my own career. Vast swathes of my plans now seem at least thirty-six per cent less impossible.
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