The Garden

Name: The Garden
Genre: Drama
Released: January 18, 1991
Duration: 92 min
Cast: Dawn Archibald, Jody Graber, Johnny Mills, Kevin Collins, Milo Bell

1991

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Zeitgeist Films | Release Date: January 18, 1991 | Unrated

Starring: Dawn Archibald, Jody Graber, Johnny Mills, Kevin Collins, Milo Bell, Pete Lee Wilson, Philip MacDonald, Roger Cook, Spencer Leigh, Tilda Swinton

Summary: Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, The Garden was born of director Jarman’s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the sluggardly response to the AIDS crisis—he had been diagnosed HIV positive in 1988. Starring Tilda Swinton, this uniquely kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, making spaceHalf waking dream and half fiery polemic, The Garden was born of director Jarman’s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the sluggardly response to the AIDS crisis—he had been diagnosed HIV positive in 1988. Starring Tilda Swinton, this uniquely kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, making space in its breadth of vision for an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical number, nightmare images of tar-and-feather queer persecution, and footage of the particularly menacing-looking nuclear power plant that overlooks Jarman’s own garden, the point from which his film begins, and a cherished spot which he must keep to tending even as his body begins to betray him. Writhing with sorrow and anger, and yet so vividly alive to the loveliness of being, The Garden is a baleful and beautiful epistle from the brink of the beyond. [Zeitgeist Films]… Expand

Director: Derek Jarman

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 92 min

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Touching, intense, sometimes unexpectedly amusing, sometimes agonising, and always achingly sincere. Read full review

Pat Brown

Derek Jarman’s 1990 film isn’t without hope that we can regrow a paradise. Read full review

Janet Maslin

Mr. Jarman's visual sense easily eclipses his conceptual talents. And The Garden has a burning, kaleidoscopic energy to compensate for the facile nature of some of its more unavoidable thoughts. Read full review

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