The Garden (1990 film)
The Garden is a 1990 British arthouse film by director Derek Jarman produced by James Mackay for Basilisk Communications in association with Channel 4, British Screen and ZDF. It focuses on homosexuality and Christianity set against a backdrop of Jarmans bleak coastal home of Dungeness in Kent, and his garden and the nearby landscape surrounding a nuclear power station, a setting Jarman compares to the Garden of Eden. The film was entered into the 17th Moscow International Film Festival.
The film follows a seemingly innocent and loving gay couple whose idealistic existence is interrupted when they are arrested, severely humiliated, tortured and killed. In between this are nonlinear images of religious iconography a Madonna Tilda Swinton who is overexposed and harassed by paparazzi in balaclavas a Jesus who painfully watches the world pass him by a Judas who is hanged and used as a tool to advertise credit cards and water dropping from an image of Christ on the crucifix. It also focuses on what it means to be gay in the 20th century, highlighting Section 28, of which Jarman was from the start a noted opponent. The film is augmented with unusually tinted shots of beaches and bizarre changes between classical, Cypriot and other types of music and sound. The film has a soundtrack by Simon FisherTurner and production design by Derek Brown.The Garden stars Tilda Swinton, Johnny Mills, Philip MacDonald, Roger Cook, Spencer Leigh, Kevin Collins, Jodie Graber and Jarman himself. ........
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