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The last of England

An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying The last of England is a lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. One of Jarman's most experimental and overwhelming works, he has Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) stalk through the remnants of industrial England, encountering visions of fascistic slaughter and sacrifice. These nightmares are cut together with his family's idyllic home movies, a link with the past soon to be severed, all overlaid with bleak quotations from poets like T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg, read in the stentorian tones of Nigel Terry (Excalibur). A kaleidoscopic view of his country's culture and history, filled with rage at Margaret Thatcher's conservative reign and haunted by the continuing scourge of AIDS (with which Jarman was diagnosed), the movie is both deeply personal and grimly historical, and is undoubtedly one of the most important British films of all time.

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  • "Verlorene Utopien"
  • "Derek Jarman's The last of England"@en

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  • "An apocalyptic roar of a movie, Derek Jarman's (Sebastiane) dizzying The last of England is a lament for the country he once knew and what he feared it would become. One of Jarman's most experimental and overwhelming works, he has Oscar winner Tilda Swinton (Michael Clayton) stalk through the remnants of industrial England, encountering visions of fascistic slaughter and sacrifice. These nightmares are cut together with his family's idyllic home movies, a link with the past soon to be severed, all overlaid with bleak quotations from poets like T.S. Eliot and Allen Ginsberg, read in the stentorian tones of Nigel Terry (Excalibur). A kaleidoscopic view of his country's culture and history, filled with rage at Margaret Thatcher's conservative reign and haunted by the continuing scourge of AIDS (with which Jarman was diagnosed), the movie is both deeply personal and grimly historical, and is undoubtedly one of the most important British films of all time."@en
  • "One of Derek Jarman's most personal innovative films, The Last of England is a devastating vision of 80s Britain. Images of war and urban decay are intercut with Jarman's own childhood home movies, creating a shocking yet beautiful and poetic film with a much praised soundtrack. A powerful and haunting work from one of Britain's most creative filmmakers."
  • "Jarman uses various methods to portray his image of 'Futuristic Thatcherland' including pieces of home movies from his own childhood."@en
  • "A vision of a totalitarian England. A torrent of apocalytic images show a vision of a world overrun by greed and repression and the damage done to the cities, the land, the air, human souls and bodies."
  • "The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher."
  • "A torrent of apocalytic images show a vision of a world overrun by greed and repression and the damage done to the cities, the land, the air, human souls and bodies."@en
  • "A devastating vision of 80's Britain. Images of war and urban decay are intercut with Jarman's own childhood home movies, creating a shocking yet beautiful and poetic film."@en
  • "This film presents apocalyptic images of a totalitarian England."@en
  • "Particular visión de la evolución de la historia de Inglaterra."
  • "Apocalyptic images show a vision of a world, a portrait of England, overrun by greed and repression and the damage done to the cities, the land, the air, human souls and bodies. This visionary work is a mysterious, well-crafted montage of image and sound, evoking a world of apocalyptic fury."@en
  • "Impressionistisch portret van Engeland in de jaren 1980-1990."
  • "One of Derek Jarman's most personal and innovative films, The Last of England is a devastating vision of 80s Britain. Images of war and urban decay are intercut with Jarman's own childhood home movies, creating a shocking yet beautiful and poetic film with a much praised soundtrack. A powerful and haunting work from one of Britain's most creative film makers."
  • "One of Derek Jarman's most personal and innovative films, The Last of England is a devastating vision of 80s Britain. Images of war and urban decay are intercut with Jarman's own childhood home movies, creating a shocking yet beautiful and poetic film with a much praised soundtrack. A powerful and haunting work from one of Britain's most creative film makers."@en
  • "A vision of a totalitarian England."@en
  • "Il Film è una personale meditazione di Derek Jarman sul declino dell'Inghilterra nell'epoca thatcheriana espresso in un linguaggio più vicino alla poesia che alla prosa."
  • "Une vision terrifiante des années 80 en Grande-Bretagne. Images de guerre, dans le milieu urbain, à la fois poétiques et terribles."
  • "This is both a lament for what Jarman sees as the terminal state of the nation and what has been described as 'a defiant fist waved in the face of Thatcher's Britain'. Jarman calls it 'a dream allegory (in which) the present dreams the past future'. Several strands of video and super 8 imagery - urban decay, home movies from the twenties to the fifties, angry stylised homo-erotic images, reflexive scenes of Jarman at work - are complemented by music and voice-over. There is suggestion in the non-linear structure of an 'imagined feature film' - paramilitary figures menacing civilians in London's docklands."@en
  • "Filmed in Belfast and London, this stunning visionary work is a mysterious, well-crafted montage of image and sound, evoking a world of apocalyptic fury. Painter-poet-filmaker Derek Jarman makes use of Super-8 lyricism, gay erotica and old home movies to illustrate the fall of England."

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  • "Speelfilm"
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  • "Dystopian films"
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