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The Garden is a British film of genre Drama directed by Derek Jarman with Tilda Swinton

The Garden (1990)

The Garden
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Length 1h32
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Genres Drama
Rating63% 3.1909053.1909053.1909053.1909053.190905

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 Jarman's 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.

Synopsis

Une femme, peut-être la Madone, apporte son bébé à une foule de paparazzi intrusifs ; elle veut fuir. Deux amants homosexuels se marient et sont arrêtés par les forces de l'ordre. Ils sont humiliés et battus. Égarés dans ce monde contemporain où Jésus est encore fort présent, il faut pouvoir survivre à l'intolérance et le meurtre.

Actors

Tilda Swinton

(Madonna/Voice Overs)
Spencer Leigh

(Mary Magdalene / Adam)
Michael Gough

(Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna)
Philip MacDonald

(Joseph)
Pete Lee-Wilson

(Devil)
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