The Garden

The Garden

92 mins | Drama | Sept. 6, 1990

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.

The Garden

92 mins | Drama | Sept. 6, 1990

The Garden
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.
IMDb rating 6.4
Producers ZDF, Channel 4 Television, British Screen Productions, Basilisk Communications, Uplink, Space Shower TV, Sohbi Kikaku
Original title The Garden
Directors Ian Francis, David Lewis, Matthew Evans, Derek Jarman
Writers Derek Jarman

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

Jody Graber

as Young Boy

Roger Cook

as Christ

Kevin Collins

as Lover

Dawn Archibald

as Nature Spirit

Milo Bell

as Cast Member

Vernon Dobtcheff

as Old Man at Sauna

Michael Gough

as Voice Overs/Old Man at Sauna

Maribelle La Manchega

as Spanish Dancer

Jessica Martin

as Singer

Jack Birkett

as Pontius (Orlando)

Leslie Randall

as Old Man at Sauna

Mike Tezcan

as Policeman

Matthew Wilde

as Policeman

Stephen McBride

as Narrator (voice)

Derek Jarman

as Himself