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The Angelic Conversation (1985)
Directed by Derek Jarman
Overview
The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic images and opaque landscapes through which two men take a journey into their own desires. Offscreen, Dame Judi Dench recites a sequence of Shakespeare’s sonnets that counterpoint the action. Jarman called it, “My most austere work, but also the closest to my heart.”
Length 78 minutes
Actors
Judi Dench | Paul Reynolds | Phillip Williamson | Dave Baby | Timothy Burke | Simon Costin | Christopher Hobbs | Philip McDonald | Toby Mott | Steve Randall | Robert Sharp | Tony Wood