The Garden is rich with metaphor. The Garden of Eden and the Garden of Gethsemane. In the garden is visible the whole sensual cycle of life and death. We watch the Passion enacted by two male lovers, filmed in the garden Jarman himself created and retreated within to prepare for his own battle with mortality. In “The Garden” the spirit and the flesh, sin and redemption, are united. Like Pasolini, Jarman eschews classic narrative for the pleasures of a cinema of poetry and seeks a spirituality based on eros rather than repression. A difficult, maddening, wondrous film. With the glorious Tilda Swinton.
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ACMI Identifier
325187
Language
English
Audience classification
MA
Subject categories
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Death - Religious aspects
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Jesus Christ - Passion
Experimental → Experimental films - Great Britain
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Death - Religious aspects
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Gay and lesbian studies
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Homosexuality in motion pictures
Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Death - Religious aspects
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)