The Angelic Conversation (1985)
UK 1985
Directed by Derek Jarman
With Paul Reynolds, Phillip Williamson
81 mins
Shakespeare’s sonnets, read by Judi Dench, are set to a gentle score from queer industrialists ‘Coil’, while ritual actions that celebrate the body are simply and touchingly performed by men along the Dorset coastline. This very tender non-narrative piece was Jarman’s personal favourite.
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