The Angelic Conversation (film)

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The Angelic Conversation
DVD cover
Directed by	Derek Jarman
Produced by	James Mackay
Written by	William Shakespeare (Sonnets)
Narrated by	Judi Dench
Starring	Paul Reynolds Phillip Williamson
Music by	Coil
Cinematography	Derek Jarman and James Mackay
Editing by	Peter Cartwright Derek Jarman Cerith Wyn Evans
Release date(s)	February 28, 1987
Running time	78 min.
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
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The Angelic Conversation is a 1985 arthouse drama film directed by Derek Jarman. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving photographic images and Shakespeare's sonnets read by Judi Dench. The film consists primarily of images of gay sexuality and opaque landscapes through which two men take a journey into their own desires.

Jarman himself described the film as:

"a dream world, a world of magic and ritual, yet there are images there of the burning cars and radar systems, which remind you there is a price to be paid in order to gain this dream in the face of a world of violence."

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The soundtrack to the film was composed and performed by Coil, and it was released as an album of the same title.

Contents 1 Shakespeare's sonnets 2 Cast 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Shakespeare's sonnets

14 sonnets the film features are:

Sonnet LVII Being your slave what should I do but tend Upon the hours, and times of your desire? Sonnet XC Then hate me when thou willt; if ever, now; Now while the world is bent my deeds to cross Sonnet XLIII When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, For all the day they view things unrespected Sonnet LIII What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Sonnet CXLVIII O me, what eyes hath love put in my head, Which have no correspondence with true sight! Sonnet CXXVI O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power Dost hold Time's fickle glass, his sickle hour Sonnet XXIX When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state

Sonnet XCIV They that have power to hurt and will do none, That do not do the thing they most do show Sonnet XXX When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past Sonnet LV Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme Sonnet XXVII Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed, The dear repose for limbs with travel tired Sonnet LXI Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Sonnet LVI Sweet love, renew thy force; be it not said Thy edge should blunter be than appetite Sonnet CIV To me, fair friend, you can never be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd

[edit] Cast

• Dave Baby
• Timothy Burke
• Simon Costin
• Christopher Hobbs
• Philip McDonald
• Toby Mott
• Steve Randall
• Robert Sharp
• Tony Wood
• Judi Dench (Narrator)
• Paul Reynolds
• Phillip Williamson

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• The Angelic Conversation at the Internet Movie Database
• The Angelic Conversation (film) at the British Film Institute's Screenonline

v • d • e Derek Jarman Feature Films Sebastiane (1976) • Jubilee (1977) • The Tempest (1979) • The Angelic Conversation (1985) • Caravaggio (1986) • Aria (segment "Depuis le Jour") (1987) • The Last of England (1988) • War Requiem (1989) • The Garden (1990) • Edward II (1991) • Wittgenstein (1993) • Blue (1993) Short film collages In the Shadow of the Sun (1981) • Glitterbug (1994)