1985
The Angelic Conversation
An unseen woman recites Shakespeare's sonnets
- fourteen in all - as a man wordlessly seeks his heart's desire. The
photography is stop-motion, the music is ethereal, the scenery is often
elemental: boulders and smaller rocks, the sea, smoke or fog, and a garden.
The man is on an odyssey following his love. But he must first, as the
sonnet says, know what conscience is. So, before he can be united with
his love, he must purify himself. He does so, bathing a tattooed figure
(an angel, perhaps) and humbling himself in front of this being. He also
prepares himself with water and through his journey and his meditations.
Finally, he is united with his fair friend.
Stills
Products
 LATEST RELEASE BFI DVD, JAN 2007 Extras Specially commissioned interviews with producer James Mackay and production designer Christopher Hobbs Derek Jarman in conversation with Simon Field (1989, 32 mins) Stills gallery 20-page illustrated booklet including introductory essay by Colin MacCabe, Tilda Swinton's testimonial letter to Derek Jarman and photographs taken during the making of the film. |
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UK, Visionary
Communications |
Italian DVD release |
Soundtrack CD by
Coil |
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