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Ratio: 16:9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0
COLOUR PAL
Region Code 2
Running Time 87 MINS
Cert: 15
Cat no. 2NDVD3171

EDWARD II

A film by DEREK JARMAN

‘MESMERISING’ Rolling Stone
‘A JEWEL OF A FILM’ Channel4.com

STEVEN WADDINGTON  
ANDREW TIERNAN   
TILDA SWINTON
NIGEL TERRY

Christopher Marlowe’s 16th Century play is radically adapted by Derek Jarman in one of his most powerful films. Using anachronistic imagery; modern dress, gay activists, battling riot police and Annie Lennox singing Cole Porter, the story of Britain’s only openly gay monarch and the persecution he suffered is given a contemporary resonance by Jarman, paralleling the injustice with prevailing modern-day homophobia.

King Edward II rejects his cold wife Queen Isabella and takes a male lover, the commoner Piers Gaveston upon whom he bestows gifts and power. The king’s behaviour enrages the sober, business-suited court officials and the spurned queen becomes a seething monster whose dresses and jewellery grow more outrageously lavish as her need for vengeance escalates and the plotting begins.

SPECIAL FEATURE
‘DEREK’S EDWARD’ – A documentary featuring interviews with producers Steve Clark-Hall and Antony Root, actor Steven Waddington, cinematographer Ian Wilson and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell.