Blue
Biography • 1h 15m
Directed by Derek Jarman • Documentary • With Derek Jarman • 1993 • 76 minutes
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. 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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