Released:
1990-09-06

Overview:
A nearly wordless visual narrative intercuts two main stories and a couple of minor ones. A woman, perhaps the Madonna, brings forth her baby to a crowd of intrusive paparazzi; she tries to flee them. Two men who are lovers marry and are arrested by the powers that be. The men are mocked and pilloried, tarred, feathered, and beaten. Loose in this contemporary world of electrical-power transmission lines is also Jesus. The elements, particularly fire and water, content with political power, which is intolerant and murderous.

Director:
Derek Jarman

Runtime:
1h 28min

Genre:
Drama

• Cast:
• 
  Tilda Swinton
  as
  Madonna/Voice Overs
• 
  Johnny Mills
  as
  Lover
• 
  Philip MacDonald
  as
  Joseph
• 
  Pete Lee-Wilson
  as
  Devil
• 
  Spencer Leigh
  as
  Mary Magdalene / Adam