Blue (Jarman, 1993): Prince Charles Cinema, 4.15pm
For Pride Month, Funeral Parade Queer Film Society are presenting Blue, Derek Jarman’s deeply personal swansong. The film will be intoduced by Sarah Cleary.
Time Out review:
The screen is a perfect blue throughout as Derek Jarman
faces up to AIDS, the loss of loved ones, the breakdown of the body,
blindness, his own approaching fall into the void. The film embodies the
spiritual transcendence which Cyril Collard sought to convey in the
last reel of his anguished melodrama Savage Nights, crucially in
the serene contemplation of the screen itself, but also in Jarman's
beautiful poetry. Extracts from the film-maker's diary supply an ironic
commentary on the 'progress' of his illness so that the movie becomes a
juxtaposition between the finite and the infinite, the sublime and the
ridiculous. Greatly helped by Simon Fisher Turner's soundtrack. Moving beyond words.
Tom Charity
Here (and above) is an extract.
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