Synopsis

The Garden (1990)

A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.
Derek Jarman, Matthew Evans, David Lewis, Ian Francis
Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald, Pete Lee-Wilson, Spencer Leigh, Jody Graber, Roger Cook, Kevin Collins, Dawn Archibald, Milo Bell, Vernon Dobtcheff, Michael Gough, Maribelle La Manchega, Jessica Martin, Jack Birkett, Leslie Randall, Mike Tezcan, Matthew Wilde, Stephen McBride, Yolande Brener, Derek Jarman
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