Derek Jarman was born OnThisDay in 1942 ❤️
County, a veteran of the New York punk scene who cameos in the film, was no more charitable in his own assessment of Jarman’s vision, released in cinemas 40 years ago this month. “Wasted celluloid”, she called it – though the scene she starred in wasn’t half bad, naturally.
Jarman’s time-travelling fantasy follows Queen Elizabeth I and her courtly sage, the occult philosopher John Dee, as they are plunged into a dark future by the spirit guide Ariel, a character lifted from Shakespeare’s. There, they find gangs of young women out stalking the streets, spitting Debord-like declamations on power, politics, sex and boredom in between random acts of violence. The late sitting monarch, Elizabeth II, is dead, mugged and killed for her crown in Deptford by a gang member.
Looking back, it’s easy to see why Jarman’s film rattled so many cages. For one, it is shamelessly arty, mixing high-flown Elizabethan poetry with punk vernacular in a way that was bound to jibe awkwardly with the scene’s anti-intellectual streak. Secondly, Jarman, a former public schoolboy who made no secret of his middle-class roots, was only halfway seduced by the punks’ embrace of nihilism, treating his cast of outlaws with a kind of appalled fascination – equal parts Alex from
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