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by Ziad Shihab/ August 23rd, 2020

Blue (1993)

1h 19min |Biography, Drama|3 December 1993 (USA)

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Director:Derek Jarman

Writer:Derek Jarman

Stars:Derek Jarman, Tilda Swinton, John Quentin|See full cast & crew »

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Cast

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John Quentin

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Nigel Terry

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Derek Jarman

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Tilda Swinton

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The artist's personal commentary on the decline of his country in a language closer to poetry than prose. A dark meditation on London under Thatcher.

Director: Derek Jarman

Stars: Tilda Swinton, Spencer Leigh, 'Spring' Mark Adley

Storyline

Against a plain, unchanging blue screen, a densely interwoven soundtrack of voices, sound effects and music attempt to convey a portrait of Derek Jarman's experiences with AIDS, both literally and allegorically, together with an exploration of the meanings associated with the colour blue.Written by Michael Brooke

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Genres: Biography | Drama

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Trivia

The lines "Our name will be forgotten in time, no-one will remember our work [etcetera]", and "our lives will run like sparks through the stubble" are adapted from the book in the Biblical Apocrypha "The Wisdom of Solomon", Chapters two and three respectively. See more »

Quotes

Narrator: I place a delphinium, Blue, upon your grave.

Connections

Referenced in Queers: A Grand Day Out (2017) See more »

Soundtracks

Gnossienne No. 1

Composed by Erik Satie

Performed by Jan Latham-Koenig

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Blue is Emptiness

26 August 2004 | by Bobolink – See all my reviews

Blue is here emptiness, emptiness is blue; blue is no other than emptiness, emptiness is no other than blue; that which is blue is emptiness, that which is emptiness is blue. The same can be said of red, orange, yellow, green, indigo and violet.

All things here are characterized with emptiness: they are not born, they are not annihilated; they are not tainted, they are not immaculate; they do not increase, they do not decrease. Therefore, in emptiness there is no blue, no red, no orange, no yellow, no green, no indigo, no violet; no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind; no form; no film, sound, color, taste, touch, objects, no element of vision, till we come to no element of consciousness; there is no knowledge, no ignorance, till we come to there is no old age and death, no extinction of old age and death; there is no suffering, no accumulation, no annihilation, no path; there is no knowledge, no attainment, no realization, because there is no attainment.

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