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The Angelic Conversation (1985)
Director: Derek Jarman, William Shakespeare
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Jarman's setting for twelve Shakespeare sonnets has no narrative as such, and the only dialogue is Judi Dench's reading of the poems. Yet even though it dispenses with such conventions, it remains a hypnotically beautiful film. Its textured, stop-frame tableaux of caves, rocks, water, and figures in strange and terrible landscapes throw up myriad painterly similarities: the lesser religious nightmares of a Bosch or Brueghel, Victorian landscape of the 'Gordale Scar school'. Very romantic.Author: JG
Cast & crew
Director: Derek Jarman, William Shakespeare
Cast: Judi Dench, Paul Reynolds, Phillip Williamson full cast
Duration: 81 mins
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