Blue

  • December 2, 2018 / 15:00
  • December 7, 2018 / 21:00

Director: Derek Jarman
Cast: Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin, Nigel Terry
UK, 1993, 79',  color
English with Turkish subtitles

In his final—and most daring—cinematic statement, Jarman the romantic meets Jarman the iconoclast in a lush soundscape pulsing against a purely blue screen. It’s an amazing aural cut up of voices, Jarman’s amongst them, supplemented and punctuated by sound collage and glorious music, a combination of monologue and prose poem, woven together to a lyrical, almost song-like effect. Laying bare his physical and spiritual state in a narration about his life, his struggle with AIDS and his encroaching blindness, Blue is by turns poignant, amusing, poetic and philosphical.

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Blue

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Trailer

Blue

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