THE GARDEN - BLU-RAY

The Garden (Blu-ray)
Directed by Derek Jarman

Close to a nuclear power station, inside his modest, sparsely furnished home on the barren, windswept Dungeness coastline, Derek Jarman dreams. This intimate insight into Jarman's inner world was beautifully shot on fragile Super 8 film with the help of friends and collaborators. Shifting from the personal to the political, it culminates in a near-mythic exploration of sexual repression at the end of the 20th century, movingly utilising a cast of iconic religious figures that includes Jesus, Judas and the Madonna. Increasingly ill by this point, Jarman faces his mortality with poetry and dignity.

Featuring a brilliant score by Simon Fisher Turner, The Garden is a visual tour-de-force from the acclaimed director of Sebastiane and Jubilee.

Special features

• Presented in High Definition
• Derek's Shoot in Dungeness (1990, 6 mins)
• The Wanderer (1991, 30 mins): David Lewis' and Andrew Crabb's experimental film based on the Anglo-Saxon poem of the same name
• Kiss 25 Goodbye (1991, 7 mins)
• Clause and Effect (1988, 19 mins): detailing the gay community uniting against the now infamous Clause 28
• Orange Juice (1984, 41 mins): Jarman's location scouting for the promo What Presence?!
• Shooting the Hunter (2015, 5 mins)
• James MacKay Remembers The Garden (2019, 15 mins)
• Anything Can Happen (2019, 11 mins): an interview with Richard Heslop
• David Lewis Remembers Derek Jarman (2019, 15 mins)
• The Other Great Masterpiece (2019, 6 mins): Director John Maybury considers Jarman's enthusiasm for gardening
• Life with Derek: Simon Fisher Turner s recordings (2018, 44 mins, audio only)
• Trailers
• Image gallery

UK | 1990 | colour | 92 minutes | English language, with optional hard-of-hearing subtitles | original aspect ratio 1.66:1 | Cert 15 (contains moderate violence, discrimination, suicide, sex references, strong language) | BD50: 1080p, 24pfs, PCM 2.0 stereo audio (48kHz/24-bit) region b