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Half waking dream and half fiery polemic, The Garden was born of director Jarman’s rage over continued anti-gay discrimination and the sluggardly response to the AIDS crisis—he had been diagnosed HIV positive in 1988. Starring Tilda Swinton, this uniquely kaleidoscopic film shows the filmmaker’s genius at its most coruscating, making space in its breadth of vision for an over-the-top Hollywood-style musical number, nightmare images of tar-and-feather queer persecution, and footage of the particularly menacing-looking nuclear power plant that overlooks Jarman’s own garden, the point from which his film begins, and a cherished spot which he must keep to tending even as his body begins to betray him. Writhing with sorrow and anger, and yet so vividly alive to the loveliness of being, The Garden is a baleful and beautiful epistle from the brink of the beyond.
Original Release
09/06/1990
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Cast
Name | Character |
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Tilda Swinton | Madonna / Madonna/Voice Overs |
Johnny Mills | Lover |
Philip MacDonald | Joseph |
Pete Lee-Wilson | Devil |
Spencer Leigh | Mary Magdalene / Adam |
Jody Graber | Young Boy |
Roger Cook | Christ |
Kevin Collins | Lover |
Milo Bell | Cast Member |
Vernon Dobtcheff | Old Man at Sauna |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Tilda Swinton | Madonna / Madonna/Voice Overs |
Johnny Mills | Lover |
Philip MacDonald | Joseph |
Pete Lee-Wilson | Devil |
Spencer Leigh | Mary Magdalene / Adam |
Jody Graber | Young Boy |
Roger Cook | Christ |
Kevin Collins | Lover |
Milo Bell | Cast Member |
Vernon Dobtcheff | Old Man at Sauna |
Michael Gough | Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna |
Mirabelle La Manchega | Spanish Dancer |
Jessica Martin | Singer |
Jack Birkett | Pontius / Pontius (Orlando) |
Leslie Randall | Old Man at Sauna |
Mike Tezcan | Policeman |
Matthew Wilde | Policeman |
Stephen McBride | Narrator (voice) / Narrator |
Yolande Brener | Eve |
Orlando | Self |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Takashi Asai | Executive Producer |
Dagmar Benke | Producer |
James Mackay | Producer |