The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic images and opaque landscapes through which two men take a journey into their own desires. Offscreen, Dame Judi Dench recites a sequence of Shakespeare's sonnets that counterpoint the action. Jarman called it, “My most austere work, but also the closest to my heart.”
Genre: Drama
Stars: Judi Dench, Paul Reynolds, Philip Williamson, Dave Baby, Timothy Burke, Simon Costin
Crew: Derek Jarman (Director), Cerith Wyn Evans (Editor), William Shakespeare (Author), Peter Cartwright (Editor), James Mackay (Producer), Richard Anstead (Sound Editor)
Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Studio: BFI, Channel 4 Television
Runtime: 78 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Feb 15, 1985
IMDb: 5.7
