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The Garden (1990)

The Garden (1990)

Drama
Release Date: 1990, September 6
Directors: Derek Jarman
Countries: Germany, United Kingdom, Japan
Production: ZDF, ZDF, British Screen Productions, British Screen Productions, Basilisk Communications, Basilisk Communications, Uplink, Uplink, Space Shower TV, Space Shower TV, Sohbi Kikaku, Sohbi Kikaku, Channel 4 Television, Channel 4 Television
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Michael Gough, Pete Lee-Wilson, Vernon Dobtcheff, Kevin Collins, Yolande Brener, Leslie Randall, Spencer Leigh, Jessica Martin, Roger Cook, Jody Graber, Johnny Mills

Overview:

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.

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